Distributed Networking / P2P Engineer

About Codex

We’re a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology. We’re building the next generation storage engine that attempts to “untie the knot” of incentivized storage. Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward.

We’re looking for an experienced P2P Networking Protocol Engineer with hands-on experience designing and implementing state of the art networking protocols and distributed systems.

https://codex.storage/

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain state of the art p2p protocols and decentralized storage solutions


• Coordinate with the ongoing testing efforts to identify and eliminate instabilities in the existing codebase and bring it to production levels quality


• Implement and design new features as part of roadmap milestones

You ideally will have

• Strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience


• Experience with low level libp2p primitives


• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)


• Experience with Open Source software


• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers


• Strong networking (P2P systems) background


• Good debugging skills


• Good at explaining a complicated issue at varying levels of complexity for others to understand


• A strong alignment to our principles

Bonus points if

• Familiarity with the Nim programming language


• Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs and other ZK-technology


• Familiarity with advanced cryptographic hashing functions

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter]

Hiring Process

• Interview with People Ops team


• Interview with Codex team member


• Pair Programming Task


• Interview with Codex Program Lead

Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.