Rust Engineer

Substrate/Consensus (Rust) Engineer

Location: Remote

As a Senior Software Engineer focused on Rust development within our Consensus Protocol Engineering team you will be joining highly skilled engineers, cryptographers, and researchers responsible for developing BFT consensus algorithms for Space and Time’s next generation data platform. You will collaborate with the rest of your team, other Space and Time teams to implement and test the core consensus algorithm. You will play a critical role as part of our core team and will have significant impact and influence over the direction of our technology. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and implementing BFT consensus algorithms, defining and prioritizing short and long term deliverables, coordinating with other teams, and learning a small development team to ensure high-quality deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Writing production ready Rust code to build an efficient, resilient BFT consensus algorithm.
• Developing supporting tools, performance benchmarks/metrics and tests in Rust and/or other languages.
• Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate future growth.
• Working with engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years software engineering experience, preferably in areas like distributed systems, consensus, p2p/libp2p, core networking.
• Experience in asynchronous programming with Rust
• Contributions to a public substrate based network
• Deep understanding of blockchain and web3 fundamentals

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in math, computer science, computer engineering, or related technical field. Masters or PhD is a plus.
• Familiarity with libp2p, gossipsub
• Familiarity Byzantine Fault Tolerance protocols.
• Familiarity with cryptographic primitives such as elliptic curves, BLS, key management.
• Familiarity with microservices, gRPC/protobufs in Rust.

Join our dynamic team and contribute to the creation of cutting-edge web applications that drive our business forward. Apply now to be a part of an innovative and collaborative work environment!

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