Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote

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Well-funded startup is growing their team and looking for a Remote Distributed Systems Engineer!

This Jobot Job is hosted by Sydney Weaver

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Salary $150,000 - $510,000 per year

A Bit About Us

Well-funded, infra startup is poised to reshape the future of crypto. Backed by industry giants they have over 60M raised and their team is a little under 30 people in size. They are looking for a Senior to Staff Software Engineer who thrives on building mission-critical systems and expertise with Rust. I've placed a few folks with them over the past 2 years and all have had fantastic feedback on the culture and organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems, infrastructure components, and protocol-level features to support decentralized applications
• Build their novel trust-minimized (honest minority) settlement layer for Solana VM rollups
• Support additional bytecodes for rollups
• Integrate oracles so they automatically work all of their rollups
• Collaborate product and engineering to translate product requirements into technical specifications and solutions
• Ensure code quality and reliability following best practices throughout the SDLC

• 100% Remote and US-based
• Highly competitive comp package with a base salary + cash bonus + token or equity.
• Great health benefits package, PTO / Vacation, 401K + match
• Great culture, innovative team, and growth opportunity
• Opportunity to make a high impact on both the company’s product and as well as the industry at large

Job Details

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Rust, minimum of 1.5 years
• 4-10+ years of software engineering experience in a Startup or similar SaaS environment
• Skilled in building distributed systems
• Experience with building high performant, high-throughput systems
• Bachelor’s in EECS, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent from a top CS program
• Extensive performance optimization engineering experience.
• Knowledge of peer-to-peer networking and distributed databases

Bonus Experience

• Strong understanding of cryptography and consensus mechanisms in the context of blockchain technology
• Bonus Crypto startup experience or with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech

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