Tech Lead, Filecoin Saturn

Responsibilities:

• 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!)

You may be a fit for this role if you have....

• 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