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Senior Software Engineer
Stellar
San Francisco, United States / Remote (United States / Canada)
$160,000 to $190,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Open to considering remote candidates in the US & Canada

Interested in helping us change the world of payments forever? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is looking for a talented, experienced, and hands-on engineer to assist partners with integrating into the Stellar network. In this role you’ll be designing, building, and implementing innovative blockchain solutions for our partners. You will lead the way in developing projects, from scoping & system design to development & best practice deployments. SDF’s partners span globally and are some of the most innovative software and financial companies.

What you'll do:

  • Be involved with all aspects of the software development process - from vision to final implementation.
  • Design new platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.
  • Build and maintain web services to support the foundation’s mission (creating equitable access to the global financial system).
  • Identify patterns in developer needs and design new protocols and services to increase developer velocity across our entire ecosystem.
  • Engage with our community of open source developers and partners on projects that encompass many different frameworks, languages, and ideas.
  • Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
  • Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling our API services.
  • Provide assistance and guidance for our integration projects with our partners and other organizations on the Stellar network.
  • Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.

Who you are:

  • 5+ years real-world experience developing or implementing software within enterprise networks
  • Solid understanding of web technologies: TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, JSON, REST, etc
  • Proficiency with programming languages such as JavaScript, Go, C++, Python, or similar
  • Ability to lead technical discussions and explain technical details to non-technical people
  • Independent and results driven. Skilled at working in an environment with dynamic objectives (maybe you even thrive on chaos)
  • You’re a strong problem solver and fast learner
  • You’re passionate about top quality code and using the latest best practices
  • You build software with your users and their needs top of mind
  • You're a true partner advocate.

About Stellar

Stellar is a decentralized, fast, scalable, and uniquely sustainable network for financial products and services. It is both a cross-currency transaction system and a platform for digital asset issuance, designed to connect the world’s financial infrastructure. Dozens of financial institutions worldwide issue assets and settle payments on the Stellar network, which has grown to over 4 million accounts.

About the Stellar Development Foundation

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is a non-profit organization that supports the development and growth of Stellar, an open-source network that connects the world’s financial infrastructure. Founded in 2014, the Foundation helps maintain Stellar’s codebase, supports the technical and business communities building on the network, and serves as a voice to regulators and institutions. The Foundation seeks to create equitable access to the global financial system, using the Stellar network to unlock the world’s economic potential through blockchain technology.

We look forward to hearing from you!

SDF is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. SDF does not make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law.


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Beats - Golang Engineer
Elastic
Remote
£116,000 to £125,000 a year
August 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. The Elastic family unites employees across 30+ countries into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

The Beats platform is the basis for building open source shippers that collect all kinds of operational data, store it in Elasticsearch, and visualize it with Kibana. They collect data from edge servers, and are used to power application monitoring, infrastructure monitoring, and network monitoring. We currently have five official Beats: Filebeat for gathering logs, Packetbeat for network traffic, Metricbeat for metrics, Winlogbeat for Windows event logs, Heartbeat for uptime monitoring, and Auditbeat for audit data. In addition, the open-source community has created over 40 Beats, collecting data from all sorts of sources.

All current Beats are written in Golang.

As part of the Beats team, you will be responsible for maintaining the official Beats, for creating new ones, as well as for supporting the community around Beats. The team is diverse and distributed across the world, and collaborates on daily basis over Github, Zoom, and Slack.

  • Write open source Golang code for maintaining different Beats.
  • Dive into new technologies and figure out how to best monitor them.
  • Define and create new Beats.
  • Work with our support team to help customers.
  • Answer community questions.
  • Collaborate with other development teams, quality engineering team and documentation team to execute on product deliverables.

Skills you will bring along

  • BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related engineering discipline and 3+ years of industry experience.
  • Experience creating system level software on Unix and/or Windows platforms. Windows programming experience would be great to have.
  • Experience in Golang programming is a big plus, but not strictly required. Our team can teach you and get you up to speed.
  • Strong experience having worked with C/C++ or other low level programming languages.
  • Operational experience with monitoring systems would be very welcome.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Ability to work in a distributed team throughout the world.
  • Knowledge and experience in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Distributed Systems is a plus.

Additional Information:

  • Competitive pay and benefits
  • Stock options
  • Catered lunches, snacks, and beverages in most offices
  • An environment in which you can balance great work with a great life
  • Passionate people building great products
  • Employees with a wide variety of interests
  • Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.
  • Distributed-first company with employees in over 30 countries, spread across 18 time zones, and speaking over 30 languages! Some even fly south for the winter :)

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Senior Golang Engineer
Volume Finance
Remote
$250,000 to $330,000 a year
August 2022
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Here at Volume, we work with the best partners to make decentralized finance protocols valuable. We solve problems of protocol utility, governance and growth for the leading DeFi protocols. From our team effort, we are able to drive massive growth of user transactions and the launch of the protocol economy. If a protocol fails to attract user activity, token value falters and innovation will flow away from the network.

Volume delivers software tools and user experiences that increase protocol token utility and community engagement, measured by protocol transaction volume growth. The Volume team’s interests are the protocol interests: Growth of user transactions.

Volume successfully launched Sommelier’s first iteration as PeggyJV, bringing the Cosmos Ethereum bridge to market and resulted in Sommelier raising a total $25MM in funding to launch the first automated DeFi blockchain to manage Liquidity Provider capital on Ethereum via the Cosmos. Sommelier consists of the Cosmos Stargate SDK, its Tendermint-based consensus layer and a decentralized, bi-directional Ethereum bridge, managed by a global network of validators. Liquidity Providers (LPs) will be able to use Sommelier to author and execute complex, automated financial transactions, such as portfolio rebalancing, limit orders, as well as a host of other features that token holders have come to expect from centralized finance (CeFi), but that are not currently available in DeFi.

Our investors include Polychain Capital, Alameda Ventures, Standard Crypto and Multicoin.

We are always looking for individuals who desire a high impact, high visibility role within a company that is making crypto and decentralized protocols valuable.

About the Role:

As a Senior Golang Engineer on our Engineering team, you will have a chance to work across the full spectrum of our protocol architecture that is built around the Cosmos-SDK, built in Golang, Rust and Solidity. Our software empowers Sommelier validators to secure the Sommelier network which offers financial automation globally. As an early employee you will be a critical part of our core team and have a significant influence over the direction of the company.the direction of the company.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Participating in and driving technical specifications, design, architecture, and implementation for new features on the Cosmos SDK
  • Writing reusable libraries and custom logic for blockchain state machines and ensuring solid test coverage
  • Participating in code reviews
  • Minimizing tech debt while strategically pushing for progress with new features
  • Help scale the team and create our engineering culture
  • Participation and leading coordination for one or more of the SDK’s architecture working groups

REQUIREMENTS

  • 3+ years working with Go in production, as well as solid experience in some other programming languages
  • Degree in Computer Science, required
  • Able to meet deadlines deliverables
  • You enjoy learning and digging into open source code, committing on other projects
  • You can organize yourself well, and can work in an agile manner
  • You enjoy a healthy balance between working autonomously and collaborating closely with peers through pairing sessions and architecture design meetings
  • You enjoy analyzing solutions and can participate in defining good architecture
  • Good written communication in English is essential
  • Previous experience working remotely and/or leading teams is a plus
  • Previous experience maintaining open source software (particularly libraries and/or frameworks), a plus
  • Previous experience working with the Cosmos SDK or related technologies, a plus
  • You are passionate about blockchain, have used DeFi dApps and believe in the opportunity of decentralization and blockchains to change how the financial world works today
  • You thrive in a startup environment and feel best working in a small, cross-functional team where you can roll up your sleeves and be hands on
  • You have an interest in working in a self organizing environment and bring creativity to start your own initiatives within the Cosmos Stargate SDK

About Volume:

Volume is a dynamic start-up company, and our successful candidate must have the ability and desire to work in a fast-paced environment. As a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.

Volume is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered equally without regard to race, color, ethnicity, veteran status, religion, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, membership in an organization or any other non-merit factors.

We have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.


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Blockchain Core Developer - Golang, Ethereum
Clearmatics Technologies Ltd
Remote
£70,000 to £120,000 a year
February 2022
7 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Clearmatics is a protocol engineering company. We are building a new financial market architecture that is more open, fair, and resilient than the legacy systems that are in use today. We develop protocols and software that create new markets for risk and more efficient infrastructure for trading, backed by a robust and scalable blockchain network, and secured with modern cryptographic techniques and economic mechanism design.

Clearmatics is based in London but operates on a 'remote first' model. We welcome candidates from all over the world. We have close ties to the Open Source and Ethereum communities, with Vitalik Buterin as an adviser.

The Engineering team at Clearmatics is responsible for developing our blockchain software at Layer 1 and Layer 2. At the core of our stack is the Autonity client, the node software that powers our blockchain network. It is based on Ethereum (go-ethereum) and is secured by Tendermint Proof-of-Stake consensus. Our decentralised platforms are built on smart contracts and decentralised applications, and are supported by backend services in Go.

We're looking to hire a Core Developer to expand our Layer 1 Engineering team.

ABOUT YOU

You're a systems programmer with good knowledge of Layer 1 protocols, and a passion for blockchain and decentralisation. You enjoy working to a high standard and writing code that is clean, performant, and maintainable. You appreciate the importance of careful design choices and can anticipate the impact of code changes on wider system behaviour. You can demonstrate a strong interest in blockchain and may even have open source contributions that you can highlight. You express yourself clearly in writing and in discussions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be involved at all stages of the development lifecycle for the Autonity protocol and its blockchain node client (a fork of go-ethereum). These include: - Implementing new protocol features in Go and Solidity - Developing new distributed systems tests and frameworks - Contributing to protocol and design specifications - Working with members of the community to resolve issues - Your work will ensure that Autonity client is correct, reliable, performant, and secure. This will enable Autonity to serve as the foundational layer for a new ecosystem of decentralised markets.

REQUIREMENTS

  • At least a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Strong programming skills in a low-level language like Go, Rust, or C++ (ideally 2+ years with Go)
  • Experience with network, concurrent, and distributed programming/debugging on Linux systems
  • Good knowledge of Ethereum protocols, BFT and dPoS consensus, P2P messaging, and crypto primitives

BONUS POINTS

  • Experience developing on a blockchain node client (preferably Ethereum-like)
  • Knowledge of distributed systems theory obtained from coursework or self-study
  • Smart contract programming experience using Solidity and Web3 APIs
  • Our compensation is blockchain competitive and dependent on your skills & experience.

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Sr. Backend Engineer (Golang)
All in Bits, Inc.
100% remote
$130,000 to $245,000 a year
March 2023
9 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

About us:

All in Bits (AiB) aims to create a more transparent and accountable world through open-source software that enables permissionless innovation and borderless transactions. Our technology empowers builders to launch sovereign blockchains and decentralized applications (dApps) that are secure, scalable, and interoperable.

As a core contributor to the thriving Cosmos ecosystem, AiB engineers pioneered the first-ever Proof-of-Stake network and built the core infrastructure that powers Cosmos today including Tendermint Core, Cosmos SDK, and Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC). From creating and funding to engineering and marketing, we prioritize simplicity and minimal production to build technological solutions that endure.

AiB is committed to upholding core Cosmos values of transparency, accountability, and decentralization. That’s why we support the creation of the Decentralists DAO for the Cosmos Hub to move all operations on-chain, starting with engineering. By establishing the Decentralists Engineering Team (DET), we aim to advance core components of the Cosmos tech stack and encourage open dialogue, decision-making, and innovation.

How we work:

We focus on talent rather than location to hire the very best person for every role. Open communication is vital, and we use the best tools to collaborate efficiently. Everyone has the autonomy to create their best work, which we reward with unlimited growth potential. AiB is remote-first, and to support your working life, we offer carefully considered benefits and hold regular team and company-wide meetings to encourage collaboration and interaction between teams.

You have flexibility to work the hours best suited to your lifestyle; as long as you deliver consistent quality work, the sky's the limit! You will be required to be available from 8 am - 10 am PST some days when we bring our people together to contribute to our Townhall sessions. We value diversity, inclusivity, honesty, and accountability. AiB is a place where talent thrives and you'll have the opportunity to carve out an exciting career trajectory best suited to your unique skills and interests.

About the position:

AiB's Developer Experience (DevX) team is seeking a talented and motivated software engineer with experience in designing and developing backend systems in Go. You will be working within the DevX team to define requirements, iterate on software solutions, and deliver useful developer APIs for people interested in building Gno ecosystem. We’re looking for a motivated and versatile engineer who understands developer ergonomics and has great written communication skills. Your work will be hugely impactful, as your APIs will be used by a rapidly growing, international audience of developers.

What you will be doing:

  • Design and build highly available and scalable backend systems, microservices and public facing APIs
  • Ensure the code you write is high quality, readable, maintainable with minimal technical debt
  • Review PRs from other members and share knowledge to contribute to increasing the team's total know-how
  • Have an active role in architectural decisions and design

We are looking for someone who has/is:

  • At least 6 years of experience as a Backend engineer with at least 4 years hands on experience in Golang.
  • Significant experience writing Golang with a good understanding of its best practices, concurrency primitives, go/ * packages, and reflection.
  • Strong skills designing high quality public APIs and Go packages.
  • Strong in computer science fundamentals including network, storage, OS, data structures, transpilers/compilers, etc.
  • Strong in designing and building backend systems in Golang, microservices, containers and container orchestration.
  • Strong knowledge in HTTP protocol, protobuf and gRPC.

Nice to have:

  • Experience building with Tendermint Core and Gno
  • Interest in topics such as proof-of-stake, consensus algorithms, decentralized exchanges, public-key cryptography, etc.
  • Experience in building smart contracts
  • Experience in Ansible, Terraform
  • Some experience in front-end development, mainly VueJS, ReactJS
  • Contribution to open-source projects

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Pastel Network Logo
Go Backend Engineer
Pastel Network
New York, United States / Remote (United States, Canada)
$125,000 to $175,000 a year
November 2021
12 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

About Pastel

Pastel is the world’s first fully dedicated, decentralized NFT platform. Pastel powers the development of third-party applications to sit on top of the Network, enabling developers to enjoy custom NFT protocols, scalable registration features, storage processes, and security of the broader network. By leveraging a purpose-built native blockchain, Pastel deploys a number of key features such as a deep-learning-based duplicate detection system to ensure proven authenticity.

Pastel is managed by world-class developers, cryptographers, and technologists, supported alongside an experienced and extensive network of marketers, influencers, and third-party agencies. Pastel is backed by key stakeholders including Innovating Capital, a prominent venture fund.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop, maintain and integrate core applications that interact directly with the blockchain technology via RPC API
  • Build high-performance REST APIs and server applications
  • Write open-source Golang clients that allow users to interact directly with our protocol

Requirements:

  • Strong knowledge of blockchain (preferably worked on at least one production blockchain codebase)
  • Strong knowledge of Go idioms and libraries
  • Worked on at least one production Golang codebase
  • Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design
  • Proficient in Python and C++

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Blockchain Engineer
Tendermint
Remote
$100,000 to $150,000 a year
January 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

About us:

Formed in 2014, Tendermint is the creator of Cosmos, an ecosystem of interoperable blockchains. We are a software engineering company that focuses on the Cosmos SDK and Starport, state-of-the-art frameworks for blockchain development. Over USD 100 billion worth of digital assets is secured by the 200+ blockchains built with the Cosmos SDK.

We’re passionate, self-driven industry leaders whose vision is to empower people to create a more transparent and accountable world through open, distributed, and interoperable networks. We believe that the technology we're building will have a major positive impact on how humans connect and coordinate globally. Join our growing international team and help us build the most popular multi-blockchain ecosystem in the world.

How we work:

We have team members working worldwide, from North America, Europe to the Middle East and Asia. We leverage agile methodologies to move quickly and stay focused. Communication is vital to us, and we rely heavily on Slack, Google Workspace, Asana, Notion, and GitHub to help us stay in sync. All the technology we build is free and open source.

This role is a full-time remote position, and you’re free to work from anywhere. Be advised that most team meetings occur between 8 am and 12 pm Pacific Time (UTC-8/-7). If you're applying from a location where these hours are outside your usual working hours, we expect you to adapt to our meeting times.

About the position:

Tendermint’s Developer Experience (DevX) team is seeking a talented and motivated software engineer with experience in developing Go applications. You will be working within the DevX team to define requirements, iterate on software solutions, and deliver useful developer tools for people interested in building Cosmos blockchains. We’re looking for a motivated and versatile engineer who understands developer ergonomics and has great written communication skills. Your work will be hugely impactful, as your tools will be used by a rapidly growing, international audience of developers.

What you will be doing:

  • Implementing features for the CLI tool for building blockchains
  • Developing Cosmos SDK modules for genesis coordination, shared security, decentralized exchanges, etc.
  • Building a server-side program that makes intelligent decisions based on blockchain data and manages server infrastructure

We're looking for someone who has:

  • At least 4 years of software engineering experience writing code that both humans and machines can understand
  • Significant experience writing Go with a good understanding of best practices, its concurrency primitives, go/* packages, and reflection
  • A strong grasp of computer science fundamentals including network, storage, OS, data structures, transpilers/compilers, etc.
  • Experience working in an agile development environment
  • Experience working with distributed teams

Nice to have:

  • Experience building with Cosmos SDK, CosmWasm, Tendermint.
  • Experience in creating microservices, working with tools like Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Terraform.
  • Interest in topics such as proof-of-stake, consensus algorithms, decentralized exchanges, public-key cryptography, etc.
  • Contribution to open-source projects

What we offer:

  • The opportunity to be part of building the future of the Internet
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Excellent benefits like educational budget, fitness and wellbeing spend
  • Flexible PTO
  • Healthcare, Dental and Vision insurance 100% covered for employees in the US
  • 401K Match in the US
  • Competitive salary, including equity

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Lead Fullstack Engineer
Cisco Meraki
Remote (Pacific Time +/- 4 hours)
$150,000 to $270,000 a year
February 2022
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Position: Senior or Lead Full Stack Engineer

Total Comp: $150K - $270K (dependent on experience level and work location)

Total Comp includes: Base salary, Cisco RSUs + 12-15% performance bonus + 401k matching (up to 4.5%) + sign-on bonus

Location: Fully Remote anywhere in the US or Canada. Partial onsite work is available in SF, San Jose, Chicago, or Austin (post covid)

At Meraki, we’re making IT easier, faster, and smarter. Our full-stack teams build and maintain our web applications, which manages millions of network devices from our cloud. Our customers use the Meraki dashboard to monitor and configure critical IT infrastructure that serves tens of millions of people every single day.

Meraki’s product Dashboard teams are small, fast-moving teams striving to make our products unique by balancing feature-rich abilities and simplicity. Our full-stack engineers are well versed in a wide array of CS concepts and excited to jump around languages, platforms, and all levels of the Meraki stack!

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

  • Develop tools for customers to configure and monitor networking devices all over the world.
  • Build intuitive and powerful workflows to solve important problems for IT professionals around the world, by collaborating with product managers and UX designers.
  • Be a technical leader by helping other engineers make architectural design decisions while evangelizing engineering best practices.

WHAT YOU MAY HAVE:

  • 5+ years of experience writing professional production code and tests.
  • 3+ years of experience in building rich web UIs with React (and Redux).
  • 3+ years of experience in web backend technologies, like Ruby on Rails or Go.
  • Would thrive in a small engineering team and are excited to solve open-ended problems across the stack.
  • Are a strong leading individual contributor and want to grow into a tech lead role.

BONUS IF YOU HAVE:

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, and Postgres.
  • Experience or willing to work in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban, etc.).
  • Have working knowledge of network protocols used on both local and wide-area networks.

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Principal Software Engineer - Edge Data
Fastly
London, United Kingdom / Remote (United States)
£80,000 to £120,000 a year
January 2021
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old

Job Description

Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers’ applications as close to their end-users as possible — at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastly’s customers include many of the world’s most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.

We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.

Principal Software Engineer - Edge Data

You will be one of the first engineers working on a brand-new system that Fastly has been prototyping and is now beginning to operationalize. The system applies cutting-edge distributed systems theory — notably, CRDTs — to Fastly's global network to provide an infrastructure for state at the edge.

What You'll Do

  • Learn the distsys theory and Go implementation of the project to proficiency, becoming a technical "co-founder" and owner
  • Optimize system performance to meet Fastly's Internet-scale requirements, via testing, profiling, refactoring, and redesigning
  • Collaborate with customer-facing teams to define and implement primitives that will power a huge number of future Fastly products
  • Help to design, develop, and participate in a process for onboarding new engineers to the project, with a focus on mentorship and growth
  • Work in a small team that's highly motivated to find new, innovative ways to give our customers new capabilities

What We're Looking For

  • Clear, effective, and empathetic communication skills, both written and verbal, especially when discussing complex technical topics
  • Intermediate+ proficiency with Go (Golang), ideally having built and operated one or more large-scale projects
  • Advanced distributed systems theory experience, especially eventual consistency, and a strong interest in learning more
  • A "systems thinker" who always keeps the big picture in mind, even as they work on the smallest details
  • Effective at asynchronous remote work, with teammates across the world

Why Fastly?

  • We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.

  • We love distributed teams. Fastly’s home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.

  • We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).

  • We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.

  • We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and we’re not ‘one size fits all’. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.

We’re always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit, please apply!


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Senior Systems Engineer
Swish
Toronto, Canada / San Francisco, United States / Remote
$80,000 to $160,000 a year
October 2018
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available

Job Description

Swish is a world-class development studio whose teams have delivered products for Google, Microsoft, Kik, Nasdaq, Factset, and other major enterprises. The blockchain engineering team at Swish is looking for talented distributed systems engineers to optimize protocol transaction throughput and network reliability for blockchains in development.

Our mission is to bring the promise of a decentralized blockchain-based future to reality for clients.

As a systems engineer, you will work with our blockchain developers, protocol researchers and clients to implement and improve on a byzantine fault tolerant blockchain architecture based on the Tendermint consensus layer, by increasing the throughput, reliability and stability of the network. This role is ideal for engineers who have experience optimizing performance and robustness of distributed systems, and are excited to be working on the cutting edge of high-performance blockchain protocol development.

You might have experience as an Unix/Linux distributed systems engineer optimizing performance and reliability for large-scale cloud servers, and be relatively new to blockchain and distributed consensus protocols. Or you might be a blockchain engineer who is very familiar with distributed consensus protocols like delegated proof-of-stake, and newer to working on low-level performance optimizations. Experience with Tendermint is a huge plus. Either way, you are a great detective and passionate about pushing the performance of your infrastructure to its limits, without compromising on safety or stability.

We are also looking for: Strong communication skills. Experience with performance and load testing.

You should be motivated by a desire to solve the most important problems, obtain unprecedented results, and push your methods to their maximal performance.

Responsibilities * Optimize Tendermint consensus protocol codebase for speed, reliability and performance, including making PRs as needed to the OSS Tendermint project * Troubleshoot reliability issues of distributed systems, e. g. connection losses between Tendermint nodes under heavy load * Monitor the infrastructure and blockchain performance to identify issues * Measure and improve server response times in different conditions and environments * Guide protocol design decisions

Requirements * 1+ years experience with Golang, C or C++ * 4+ years of experience in a systems engineering role * Deep experience with networking and concurrent computing * Deep experience with Unix/Linux systems * Experience with AWS/GCP * Comfortable operating in dynamic environments

Bonus Points * Background in networking or distributed systems * Familiarity with Cosmos / Tendermint * Proficiency in protocol-level blockchain development * Contribution to open source software * Degree in STEM field, especially software engineering or computer science related. * Experience in small start­up environments helping large enterprises. * Experience with a distributed team

About Swish

Launched in February 2013, Swish is a fast-growing business with an innovative working culture and teams spanned across the world with teams in Toronto, San Francisco, Berlin, Auckland, Bruxelles, Medellin, and more.

We create products for successful business using cutting-edge technologies: Blockchain, Machine Learning, and Apps Dev. Working with Swish puts you in contact with prestigious brands, wherever your base is. We are a 100% remote-work company because we believe it is everyone’s choice to live and work the way they prefer.

Work is organized in sprints  - 2 weeks periods to which, as a member of our talent community, you choose to commit. You always have the choice to accept or decline a sprint, or take-on multiple sprints simultaneously.

We let members choose what suits them best depending on their current situation: family, travel, studies, finance. We know life is not linear and we respect the humans behind the screens.

Our work ethic relies on six core values: Transparency, Directness, Meritocracy, Autonomy, Responsibility, Continuous Learning.

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to our values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a fun place to work.

Join the future of work today.


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