Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Cross-Chain Engineer at DFINITY. The role involves designing and implementing smart contracts and complex distributed systems, integrating the IC with other blockchains, maintaining existing solutions, researching other blockchain protocols, participating in the interactions with the NNS DAO and release life-cycle, and developing metrics and monitoring of deployed smart-contracts. The ideal candidate has experience in Web3 space, security-critical software development, system software language like C, C++, or Rust, and deploying systems that run 24x7x365.

Requirements

• Solid experience and understanding of the Web3 space, protocol design and smart-contracts development
• Experience in security-critical software development and implementation best practices, ability to put oneself into an adversarial mind-set when looking for vulnerabilities
• A deep understanding of at least one system software language, like C, C++, or Rust. Our systems developers work primarily in Rust (we will help you learn it)
• Experience deploying systems that run 24x7x365 and building the monitoring, alarming, and tooling required to keep them healthy

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of new solutions helping integrate the IC with other blockchains
• Maintenance and development of existing solutions like the Bitcoin integration, Ethereum integration, ck-Tokens, and so on
• Research and exploration of other blockchain protocols, especially Bitcoin and EVM-based ones
• Participating in the interactions with the NNS DAO and release life-cycle, including creating executable upgrade proposals
• Developing metrics and monitoring of deployed smart-contracts

Preferred Qualifications

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a closely related field. The unique challenges at DFINITY have attracted many engineers with advanced degrees, however your practical experience is more important to us than your educational background