Senior Software Engineer, Protocol Labs
FIL-Infra
$225-260k
+ Cryptocurrency + Equity
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
$225-260k
+ Cryptocurrency + Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To drive breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.
Role
Who you are
- Mastery of fundamental software engineering practices: testing, debugging, automating, refactoring, and consideration to future maintenance
- Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
- A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- +5 years experience with the modern programming language
- +5 years experience working in an infrastructure/backend engineering position
- +3 years experience working in distributed systems:
- Bonus: Peer to peer networking and computing
- Bonus: Familiarity with ethereum smart contract
- Bonus Points (not required but things to look for):
- Proficiency with the Go programming language
- Disciplined application versioning
- Preference toward leaving code better than how it was found
- Thorough documentation to increase the next contributor’s quality including details such as: introduction to development lifecycle, expectations for user experience, usage examples, or maintaining practical test coverage
- Being accountable for operational support based on an on-call rotational model
- Knowledgeable in the Storage domain at the kernel and application layers
- Involvement with Filecoin Storage Providers or Crypto Mining
- Experience working remotely in a distributed team
- Experience with Open Source Software and working out in the open
What the job involves
- Own multi-week sprints and quarter-long epics from conception to delivery
- Maintain proactive async communication with stakeholders to provide updates and progress reports
- Establish measurable service level objectives in collaboration with stakeholders
- Establish comprehensive observability over the performance of supported services
- Improve collaboration and remove friction within and around our team
- Write high-quality design proposals and technical documentation
- Offer bespoke infrastructure support where high-priority opportunities arise
- Adopt and apply deep domain knowledge (specifically in Protocol Lab’s Interplanetary Stack (libp2p, ipfs, filecoin, etc)) to understand and anticipate how it applies within and around your responsibilities
- Promote a positive, productive, and constructive engineering culture toward adopting best practices, experimentation and failing quickly toward success
- Support operations and monitoring of core Filecoin Network Infrastructure including Bootstrap Nodes, Disputers, Chain Snapshotting, api.chain.love, stats.filecoin.io and more
- Become familiar with Filecoin implementation (primarily Lotus) and contribute bug fixes and new features. Push on operational improvements in the software to make running it at scale easier and more approachable for decentralized operations and infrastructure teams
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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