Who are we?

We're a remote team made up of 70+ core-contributors and a growing community of members scattered around the globe. We care deeply about open source software, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities. 

The role: 

We are the Vac team, and we are building a communications tool with security, censorship resistance and privacy in mind; Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging, Waku v2 Plan, Waku v2 Update. You will help us research and develop new and existing technologies in secure messaging.

Responsibilities:

Research and develop open protocols for secure messaging.
Use a layered protocol approach that is mindful and explicit about what it requires, what it provides, under what threat models, and with what trade-offs.
Combine cryptoeconomics and traditional technologies to create a sustainable distributed and fault-tolerant system.
Write and maintain Nim code.
Research and design core functionality.
Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
Use libp2p to build application-level protocols.
Build incentivized, distributed systems.
Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.
Ideally you will have:

[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!]

A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization. 
Strong academic or engineering background.
Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms.
Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically.
Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks.
Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.
Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.
Bonus points if you have:

Contributed to a blockchain-related, open source project.
In in the Ethereum community.
Experience with cryptography such as OTR, X3DH, Noise protocol.
Experience with Nim. 
Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p.

Who are we?

We're a remote team made up of 70+ core-contributors and a growing community of members scattered around the globe. We care deeply about open source software, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities. 

The role: 
We are the Vac team, and we are building a communications tool with security, censorship resistance and privacy in mind; Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging, Waku v2 Plan, Waku v2 Update. You will help us research and develop new and existing technologies in secure messaging.

Responsibilities:
Research and develop open protocols for secure messaging.
Use a layered protocol approach that is mindful and explicit about what it requires, what it provides, under what threat models, and with what trade-offs.
Combine cryptoeconomics and traditional technologies to create a sustainable distributed and fault-tolerant system.
Write and maintain Nim code.
Research and design core functionality.
Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
Use libp2p to build application-level protocols.
Build incentivized, distributed systems.
Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.
Ideally you will have:

[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!]

A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization. 
Strong academic or engineering background.
Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms.
Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#).
Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically.
Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks.
Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.
Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.
Bonus points if you have:

Contributed to a blockchain-related, open source project.
In in the Ethereum community.
Experience with cryptography such as OTR, X3DH, Noise protocol.
Experience with Nim. 
Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p.

About Status


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 a minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

The role:
 

P2p networks are at the heart of decentralized technologies and libp2p has quickly gained popularity as the goto p2p stack. At Status, we’ve successfully implemented and deployed a full fledged libp2p stack and it’s now powering the Nimbus Ethereum 2 client. The libp2p stack is also at the heart of other crucial Status projects and its usage within the organization and beyond is only going to increase. 


Our implementation is written in Nim - an efficient, expressive and elegant programming language.
 

You’ll be working on:
Implementing p2p networking protocols
Further architecture and development of the nim-libp2p implementation
Implement libp2p protocols according to existing specifications
Research and development of new p2p protocols and primitives
Working across teams to help with networking specific needs
You ideally will have: 
A passion for decentralization, p2p and privacy-preserving technology
Strong academic or engineering background
Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms
Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically
Experience implementing core networking protocols such as Websockets and/or Quic
Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal
A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Bonus points if:

Experience working remotely 
Experience working for an open-source organization  
Previous experience with libp2p - preferably as a direct contributor to the codebase or specifications
Or, experience with other off-the-shelf networking stacks such as devp2p
Experience with the Nim language
[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].


The hiring process:
Interview with Pepper, People Ops 
Interview with Tanguy / Mark from the Libp2p Team
Interview with Dmitriy, Libp2p Team Lead
Interview with Jacek, Head of Research
The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline. 


Compensation:

Status offers compensation payable in fiat and/or crypto.



Get to know us:
 
Find out about the libp2p project and team here: https://github.com/status-im/nim-libp2p

<p>Looking for a full stack engineer who is crypto native. Current app doesn't need Solidity knowledge.</p>

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