Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mysten Labs, a leading force in decentralized protocols, and contribute to the development of Sui, our secure and performant platform. As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you will design and implement core components of Sui, focusing on asynchronous networking, distributed storage, and high-performance execution runtimes. Collaborate with experts in programming languages and product engineers to ensure platform functionality and efficiency. Mysten Labs offers a remote-first work environment and a world-class team with significant growth potential. We've secured substantial funding from top-tier investors, positioning us at the forefront of Web3 innovation. Help us bring the next billion users to Web3!

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of experience in hands-on software engineering, including methodologies to ensure correctness and performance of implemented components
• Have had a substantial role in the design and implementation of a large distributed system
• Have experience with the design and evaluation of secure systems, incl. secure programming, appropriate use of cryptography, and prevention of DoS attacks
• Be fluent in writing design documentation as well as participating in technical discussions and reviews synchronously, asynchronously, in person or remotely
• Be fluent in a systems’ language such as Rust which is used within Mysten or C++ etc
• Have a level of expertise in one or more of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, operating systems, and runtimes to be able to read research papers in the field and design systems based on them
• Have a lay persons’ interest in open, decentralized, permissionless technologies, and the intersection of contemporary technology, economics, finance and governance

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Mysten’s safe, secure and performant decentralized platform, Sui
• Have core expertise in designing systems involving asynchronous networking, safe distributed systems (byzantine and crash-tolerant), distributed storage, and high performance execution runtimes for VMs
• Work closely with programming language technologies experts to ensure execution engines run correctly, and efficiently and product engineers to ensure the platform supports the transactions and operations required by users

Benefits

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world