Senior Distributed Systems Engineer - Remote

Well-funded, infra startup is poised to reshape the future of crypto. Backed by industry giants they have over 60M raised and their team is a little under 30 people in size. They are looking for a Senior to Staff Software Engineer who thrives on building mission-critical systems and expertise with Rust. I've placed a few folks with them over the past 2 years and all have had fantastic feedback on the culture and organization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems, infrastructure components, and protocol-level features to support decentralized applications
• Build their novel trust-minimized (honest minority) settlement layer for Solana VM rollups
• Support additional bytecodes for rollups
• Integrate oracles so they automatically work all of their rollups
• Collaborate product and engineering to translate product requirements into technical specifications and solutions
• Ensure code quality and reliability following best practices throughout the SDLC

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Rust, minimum of 1.5 years
• 4-10+ years of software engineering experience in a Startup or similar SaaS environment
• Skilled in building distributed systems
• Experience with building high performant, high-throughput systems
• Bachelor’s in EECS, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent from a top CS program
• Extensive performance optimization engineering experience.
• Knowledge of peer-to-peer networking and distributed databases

Bonus Experience

• Strong understanding of cryptography and consensus mechanisms in the context of blockchain technology
• Bonus: Crypto startup experience or with optimistic & zero-knowledge tech