CRDT Software Engineer

webAI

12d

About The Position

webAI is seeking Senior and Staff Engineers to join their initiatives focused on secure, distributed, and resilient AI infrastructure. This role requires experience with CRDTs and will focus on decentralized systems, similar to technologies like IPFS and torrents, rather than blockchain. The engineers will design and implement advanced synchronization and networking systems for reliable AI operations across diverse environments, ensuring high standards of performance, reliability, and data privacy. The work involves architecting data synchronization frameworks, leading performance tuning, ensuring security through threat modeling and cryptography, and collaborating with other teams to deploy AI components in restricted systems. The role also includes contributing to architectural discussions, maintaining testing and validation practices, and potentially working with concepts like distributed hash tables, gossip protocols, and NAT traversal. Development will primarily be in Rust.

Requirements

CRDT experience is required
Experience with peer to peer or decentralized networking frameworks
5-10+ years of experience (depends on leveling) with backend systems languages i.e. C++, C, Go, Rust

Nice To Haves

Experience developing tech that looks more like IPFS, torrents, etc. than blockchain

Responsibilities

Work in backend systems languages to design and implement advanced synchronization and networking systems that enable reliable AI operations across heterogeneous environments, from edge devices to cloud isolated systems, while upholding the highest standards of performance, reliability, and data privacy.
Architect robust data synchronization frameworks using content addressable storage, Merkle trees, CRDTs
Lead performance tuning, debugging, and optimization of distributed software under resource constrained and intermittent connectivity conditions.
Ensure security first design through threat modeling, secure key management, and integration of cryptographic primitives and protocols.
Collaborate with MLOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams to deploy and integrate AI components in restricted or air gapped systems.
Contribute to cross functional architectural design discussions and documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
Maintain rigorous testing, observability, and validation practices to ensure system reliability and compliance readiness.
Other areas touched on may include distributed hash tables, content identifiers, gossip protocols, DAGs, overlay networks, and NAT traversal