Infrastructure Engineer, Protocol Labs
Network Role
Open-source R&D lab for Web 3.0
Job no longer available
Open-source R&D lab for Web 3.0
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To drive breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years experience working in a software and/or infrastructure engineering position - crafting resilient, high-scale, low latency, distributed microservices in production environments
- Strong technical background with emphasis on infrastructure, devops, and software engineering best practices
- Understand computer networks and the Internet and how distributed resources in the cloud communicate: IP, UDP/TCP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, managing websockets, unix sockets as well as custom protocols and abstractions
- Know how to configure and optimize NGINX
- Desire to solve hard infrastructure problems with the goal to automate and scale everything
- Strong understanding with domain-specific technical topics and how they impact the team’s operational success
- Motivation to deliver high quality solutions to ever changing problems
What the job involves
- Lead projects, initiatives, and designs
- Be able to study the problem space to gain understanding of the needs of our customers and how our space relates to delivery and operations
- Thrive in a more async environment
- Create strong partnerships
- Establish measurable service level objectives in collaboration with stakeholders
- Establish comprehensive observability over the performance of deployable services
- Write, review, and merge infrastructure-as-code changes to git repositories
- Offer bespoke infrastructure support where high-priority opportunities arise
- Improve collaboration and remove friction within and around teams
- Write high-quality design proposals and technical documentation
- Promote a positive, productive, and constructive engineering culture toward adopting best practices, experimentation and failing quickly toward success
Our take
Big tech’s dominance over the internet has led to something of a grass-roots revolution in the form of Web 3.0, a new iteration of the internet focusing on decentralised, open-source technology that helps sidestep censorship and confer real ownership on its participants. Protocol Labs is a well-established player in this field. It’s a product development lab building protocols and tools to help develop and democratize the future of computing.
Protocol Labs’ credentials are impressive. Highlights from its project roster include p2p hypermedia protocol InterPlanetary File-System (IPFS), a faster and more robust HTTP alternative which has helped tackle internet censorship; the Filecoin cryptocurrency, which has been one of the first coins to see substantial bounce-back after the Luna crash; and libp2p, a modular networking stack that caters to the increasing number of p2p network developers.
With its fingers deep in many major Web 3.0 pies, and a strong track record and talent roster, Protocol Labs has established itself as an industry-shaping player. Although the so-called "crypto winter", that has done its share of damage among many industry players, has unfortunately forced the company into a round of layoffs, it remains positive that it can weather the winter and hold its own within the still rapidly-evolving ecosystem of Web 3.0 startups, as well as compete against future-focused industry incumbents.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2016
$3m
EARLY VC
Aug 2014
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $3.2m
Company benefits
- Fully distributed
- Unlimited time off
- Platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
- Contributions to your retirement
- Parental leave
Company HQ
Civic Center, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Juan Benet
(CEO)Completed a Computer Science Master's at Stanford, and went on to co-found multiplayer mobile game company Loki Studios, and Athena.
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