Status is hiring Web3 Research Engineer
Research Engineer
Experience
Minimum 1 Year
Employee type
Full Time
Position
Senior
Offer Salary
Desired Qualifications
- Proofs of data possession and availability (PoR and PDP, etc…)
- Researching or implementing novel or existing cryptographic primitives
- Researching or implementing erasure coding schemes (Reed-Solomon, Tornado, etc…)
- Researching or implementing incentivized p2p systems
- Researching or implementing low level p2p protocols
Duties & Responsibilities
- Research and develop novel data possession and availability schemes
- Combine crypto-economics and traditional technologies to create a sustainable distributed and fault-tolerant systems
- Research and develop p2p primitives such as DHTs and Gossip networks
- Build incentivized, distributed systems
- Write and maintain Nim code
- Provide feedback on overall design decisions and participate in code reviews
- Use libp2p to build application-level protoco
Our Company
Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute. As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper). As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 100+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe. We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.
Other
The hiring process for this role will be:
- Interview with Pepper from our People Ops team
- Interview with Dmitriy, Codex team lead
- Peer interview with Mark or Csaba from Codex team
- Final interview with Jacek, Program lead
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