Distributed Networking / P2P Engineer

About Codex

We're a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology. We're building the next generation storage engine that attempts to "untie the knot" of incentivized storage. Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward.

We're looking for an experienced P2P Networking Protocol Engineer with hands-on experience designing and implementing state of the art networking protocols and distributed systems.

https://codex.storage/

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain state of the art p2p protocols and decentralized storage solutions
• Coordinate with the ongoing testing efforts to identify and eliminate instabilities in the existing codebase and bring it to production levels quality
• Implement and design new features as part of roadmap milestones
  
  

You ideally will have

• Strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
• Experience with low level libp2p primitives
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
• Experience with Open Source software
• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers
• Strong networking (P2P systems) background
• Good debugging skills
• Good at explaining a complicated issue at varying levels of complexity for others to understand
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  
  

Bonus points if

• Familiarity with the Nim programming language
• Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs and other ZK-technology
• Familiarity with advanced cryptographic hashing functions
  
  

[Don't worry if you don't meet all of these criteria, we'd still love to hear from you anyway if you think you'd be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter]

Hiring Process

• Interview with People Ops team
• Interview with Codex team member
• Pair Programming Task
• Interview with Codex Program Lead
  
  

Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.