Senior Distributed Systems Engineer

This role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining distributed consensus mechanisms and distributed system architectures. The engineer will improve performance, debug multi-node issues, implement Byzantine fault-tolerant solutions, build monitoring and observability, conduct profiling, and contribute to technical documentation and mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement consensus protocols
• Develop and optimize distributed system architectures for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
• Analyze and improve system performance, latency, and throughput
• Debug complex distributed system issues across multiple nodes and networks
• Create and maintain technical documentation for distributed systems and protocols
• Implement Byzantine fault-tolerant solutions
• Conduct performance analysis, profiling, and optimization
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability solutions
• Mentor team members in distributed systems concepts

Requirements

• Proven distributed systems or consensus engineering experience, including a relevant Master’s or PhD or 3+ years of industry experience
• Strong background in consensus algorithms such as Paxos, Raft, and PBFT
• Expertise in concurrent and parallel programming
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, or C++
• Deep understanding of distributed computing concepts, including CAP theorem and consistency models
• Experience with network programming and distributed system testing
• Strong knowledge of performance optimization and bottleneck analysis
• Experience with Byzantine fault-tolerant systems preferred
• Knowledge of HotStuff, Tendermint, Narwhal, or Bullshark preferred
• Familiarity with formal verification methods preferred
• Experience with large-scale distributed databases and peer-to-peer networking preferred
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure preferred

Benefits

• Equity participation
• Career advancement opportunities
• Opportunity to work on decentralized technologies