Protocol Engineer

Summary

Join a cypherpunk group building truly decentralized software as a p2p messaging protocol developer. Implement open protocols for peer-to-peer secure messaging and create and maintain a sustainable and fault-tolerant distributed system. Write and maintain Nim code (nwaku codebase), understand and optimize core functionality, and provide feedback on design decisions. Use libp2p to build infrastructure-level protocols and support platforms using nwaku software. Maintain Golang, Rust and other language SDKs. Compensation is offered in fiat and/or crypto.

Requirements

• A passion for privacy-preserving, decentralised and blockchain technology
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with low-level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust)
• Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically
• Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks
• Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal

Responsibilities

• Implement open protocols for peer-to-peer secure messaging
• Create and maintain a sustainable and fault-tolerant distributed system
• Write and maintain Nim code (nwaku codebase)
• Understand and optimise the core functionality of complex software systems
• Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews
• Use libp2p to build infrastructure-level protocols
• Support platforms and operators using nwaku software
• Maintain Golang, Rust and other language SDKs built on top of FFI bindings

Preferred Qualifications

• Embedded systems development experience
• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open-source project
• Experience with Valgrind, or gdb, or gprof or perf
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p

Benefits

We are happy to pay in a mix of fiat and/or crypto