Role overview
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.
What you'll work on
- Research and develop open P2P protocols for secure messaging.
- Research efficient, scaling solutions for P2P communications.
- Build incentivized, distributed systems.
- 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, scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant system.
- Use libp2p to build application-level protocols.
- Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.
- Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
- Write Nim code.
What we're looking for
- A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
- A strong academic background.
- Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms.
- Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust).
- 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.
- A Master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on computer networks.
- A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
Tags & focus areas
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