Upshot · 5 hours ago

Distributed Systems Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

5+ years exp

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Andi Morrow

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Responsibilities

Develop high-quality, well-tested code in Go, primarily, but also NodeJS, TypeScript, and Python to assist in peripheral efforts

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Collaborate with our research and customer-facing teams to bring features and products to life

Participate in system architecture, protocol design, and decision-making to ensure security and minimize attack surface

Own the entire lifecycle of short-term projects, from tech spec to final implementation to obtaining and implementing user feedback

Assess implications of game theoretic structures, considering economic, scalability, and usability concerns

Be meaningfully helpful and communicative to those writing documentation about your systems. Iterate with them

Be curious and proactive in learning about web3, Cosmos, economic structures

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsGoNodeJSTypeScriptPythonRelational DatabasesKey-Value StoresDebuggingProfilingTracingProactive CommunicationCosmos SDKLow-Level Network ProgrammingDevOpsCloud InfrastructureMachine LearningAPI DocumentationDistributed Event StreamingPostgreSQL

Required

5+ years of experience building and maintaining distributed systems

A high degree of paranoia about system failure, the loss of billions of dollars of user funds, and reputational catastrophe to ensure that you can contribute to avoiding these outcomes

A high degree of dynamic intelligence and curiosity to ensure that you can be effective diving into new tasks or roles that you have never performed

Sufficient software engineering experience that language, tech stack, etc. don't slow you down

Experience with both relational and key-value data stores

Experience debugging, profiling, and tracing to solve performance and correctness issues

Proactive communicator, fluent in English and able to collaborate effectively with multiple teams

Hustle and dedication