We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions.
- Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software.
- Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
- A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals.
- Deep understanding of the theory and implementation of database trees on real file systems.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Worked with and mentored junior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Improve the IAVL codebase by committing DRY, well tested code.
- Work with the Cosmos-SDK team to keep the IAVL tree and its proofs well integrated.
- Optimize our implementation of the IAVL tree and its proofs.
- Research, design, and implement improvements to the IAVL tree, the proofs, and related protocols.
- Help formalize the specification of the IAVL tree and proofs and ensure the implementation adheres to the spec.
- Develop simulations for testing the behaviour of the IAVL tree under various loads and read/write strategies.
- Develop alternatives to the IAVL tree like the Ethereum Patricia Trie that adhere to the same interfaces.
- Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
- Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to build the future of the internet.
- An exciting role building open source software.
- Flexible work schedule.
- At least 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- Very competitive salary, including equity.
About our application process:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
Senior Software Engineer, SDK Tendermint Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Berlin, Germany $100,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience.
- Significant experience writing Golang.
- Built an open source framework for software development.
- Significant open source software contributions.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Worked with and mentored junior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Improve the SDK codebase by committing DRY, well tested code.
- Work with the SDK team to triage tickets and move the project forward.
- Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
- Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
- Help with developer adoption by supporting projects using the SDK.
- Participate in developer discussion forums and work to improve the usability based on user feedback.
- Promote the SDK by publishing blog posts and guides.
What we offer:
- The opportunity to build the future of the internet.
- An exciting role building open source software.
- Flexible work schedule.
- At least 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- Very competitive salary, including equity.
About our application process:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
WHO YOU ARE:
- At least 5 years of programming experience.
- Significant experience with Golang.
- Extensive understanding of the Ethereum state machine, including the EVM, transaction structures, state mechanics, etc.
- Experience with the go-ethereum or parity codebase.
- Expertise in blockchain technologies.
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Worked with and mentored junior engineers.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
WHERE YOU ARE:
- Berlin
- San Francisco
- Toronto
ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop, maintain, and extend Ethermint - the EVM implementation on Tendermint Core
- Develop Plasma-style sidechains for Ethereum
- Develop Cosmos-Ethereum peg zones
- Contribute to go-ethereum to improve its modularity and usability as a library
- Help formalize the specification of Ethermint and ensure the implementation adheres to the spec.
- Mentor junior engineers and support the growth and health of the team.
- Review pull requests and provide valuable feedback to members of the team and open source contributors.
WHAT WE OFFER:
- The opportunity to build the future of the internet.
- An exciting role building open source software.
- Flexible work schedule.
- Travel stipend for conferences and in person collaboration.
- At least 4 weeks of paid vacation.
- Very competitive salary, including equity.
ABOUT OUR APPLICATION PROCESS:
Qualified candidates can expect to go through a 4 step interview process. The first interview will be a call to assess cultural fit and to make sure our goals are aligned.
If we think there is a good fit, you'll have a call with one of our project managers to learn more about your skills and attitudes toward teamwork. If it's clear that you'd be a good addition to the team, we’ll ask you to complete a technical task for which you will be compensated.
If your technical task displays a high level of quality and care we will set up a final interview with our CEO or CTO.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer Tendermint San Francisco, United States / Berlin, Germany / Toronto $100,000 to $150,000 a year
October 2018
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We're looking for someone who has:
- At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions.
- Written structured, high-quality programs and scripts for automation.
- Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages.
- Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software and infrastructure tools like Elastic stack, InfluxDB stack, DataDog, PagerDuty, or VictorOps.
- Built solutions with a broad set of technologies in and around cloud solutions (AWS EC2, ECS, Route53, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, - Google Container Engine, Kubernetes or Docker Swarm).
- Implemented continuous deployment before (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
- Experience with SDLC tools (Git, GitHub, Atlassian Stash/Bitbucket, GitLab, JIRA).
- Experience with QA/SIT tools (Selenium).
- Experience in Linux System administration including package management, network management, and security management.
- Familiarity with open source P2P networking protocols.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
- The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be:
- Help scale software systems with automation, in an effort to improve reliability, velocity, and simplicity.
- Create, maintain, and improve the tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery.
- Build and maintain tooling for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining clusters of Tendermint nodes on our testnets and mainnets.
- Build and maintain tooling to help shorten feedback cycles within teams and projects.
- Plan, build, and maintain public facing services in association with business goals.
- Build tools to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health.