Tech Lead, Filecoin Saturn

Protocol Labs is seeking a tech lead engineer to join the Filecoin Saturn team. The role involves leading engineering and technical efforts for Filecoin Saturn, Filecoin’s Content Delivery Network (CDN), designing and implementing performant and resilient distributed systems at scale, and contributing to protocol design and specification efforts. The ideal candidate should have experience building applications using Javascript and Python, Go, or Rust, a solid understanding of distributed systems principles and applications, and leadership experience building and maintaining large-scale, production software. Bonus points are given for experience leading open source projects, security engineering and/or cryptography principles and practices, and experience building with decentralized building blocks such as DHTs, consensus protocols, smart contracts, blockchain, p2p networking, etc.

• Lead engineering and technical efforts for Filecoin Saturn, Filecoin’s Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• Be responsible for Saturn’s technical architecture and design
• Lead other engineers – directly and set an example of engineering excellence
• Design and implement performant and resilient distributed systems at scale
• Run, scale, and maintain production software used by millions around the world
• Contribute to protocol design and specification efforts
• Interface with other technical teams both inside and outside of Protocol Labs
• Solve hard problems in low-trust distributed systems
• Take research and turn it into working, scalable programs and systems
• Work with a cross-functional team including engineering, design, community, product, and business
• Engage and educate the community, from users to contributors
• Provide guidance and review for open source contributions and contributors around the world (Filecoin Saturn is open source on Github!)

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, related field or equivalent practical experience
• Significant experience building applications using Javascript and Python, Go, or Rust
• A solid understanding of distributed systems principles and applications
• Experience designing and building distributed and/or peer-to-peer software systems and applications
• A strong technical design ability informed by broad experience across multiple domains/specialties
• Leadership experience building and maintaining large-scale, production software
• Literacy with cryptographic principles and practices
• Proven track record of independently driving projects in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
• A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience leading open source projects, and/or guiding their communities
• Security engineering and/or cryptography principles and practices
• Large-scale systems (especially networking, performance, storage, or reliability engineering)
• Experience building with decentralized building blocks such as DHTs, consensus protocols, smart contracts, blockchain, p2p networking, etc.
• Experience building a CDN