Founding Engineering Lead, Protocol Labs

• Lead the design and development of massively distributed internet scale services. While CDN experience is highly relevant, we particularly value experience working on state of the art distributed systems at scale
• A strong technical design acumen informed by broad experience across multiple domains/specialties
• A solid understanding of distributed systems principles and applications
• Mastery in large-scale modern software development practices (we primarily use Go, Node.js, and Rust, but do not require any particular language experience)
• Literacy with cryptographic principles and practices
• Proven track record of independently driving projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
• A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration and teamwork
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in an asynchronous work environment

Desirable

• Lead the architectural design, development and deployment of Saturn’s next generation CDN to realize the full potential of IPFS’s edge caching performance properties
• Function as technical lead, working with the existing team to deliver outstanding technical results
• Work cross functionally across engineering, ecosystem, marketing and legal to achieve business objectives
• Be responsible for Saturn’s technical performance, improving key metics such as time to first byte, average MS latency and uptime
• Uplevel and guide engineers on your team and across Protocol Labs
• Interface with other technical teams both inside and outside of Protocol Labs
• Solve hard problems in low-trust distributed systems