Senior Software Engineer Protocol

You will design, implement, and optimize core protocol components, including consensus mechanisms, state synchronization, replication, and mempool transaction propagation. You will build fault-tolerant distributed systems in Rust, improve throughput, reliability, and latency, collaborate on protocol designs, resolve live distributed-systems issues, and contribute to testing, benchmarks, and safe releases.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize core protocol components
• Build high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems in Rust
• Improve system throughput, reliability, and latency at scale
• Partner with research and product teams to iterate protocol designs
• Debug and resolve complex distributed-systems challenges in live environments
• Contribute to engineering standards for testing, benchmarks, and safe releases

Requirements

• Rust systems programming
• Distributed systems, including consensus, replication, networking, and asynchronous primitives
• Production infrastructure or protocol software
• Asynchronous concurrency
• Performance optimization
• Network protocols
• Peer-to-peer systems
• Decentralized-systems design tradeoffs
• Correctness, testing, and reliability