Protocol Integration Engineer (Remote)

Status is the gateway to the decentralized web. We’re 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.

As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community. Our core products include an open source, Ethereum-based app for mobile and desktop that gives users the power to chat, make payments and browse the decentralized web, as well as foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol which is a continuation of Whisper.

Who are we?

We’re a remote team made up of ~75 core contributors and a growing number of community members scattered around the globe. We care deeply about open source software, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization’s priorities.

The project & role:

We are the Vac team, and we are building a communications tool with security, censorship resistance and privacy in mind. See Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging for more. You will focus on making Waku v2 and the reference implementation nim-waku production-ready: as robust, scalable and secure as possible for large scale deployment. This also includes implementing and maintaining required protocols.

Our implementation is written in Nim - an efficient, expressive and elegant programming language.

What you will be doing:

• Write and maintain Nim code.
• Research and design core functionality.
• Provide feedback on overall design decisions and participate in code reviews.
• Integrate nim-waku in other environments, including using FFI in a polyglot environment and running in many different environments (mobile phones, etc).
• Support the production implementation with security issues, bug fixes and similar.
• Ship high-quality software (including testing, benchmarks, monitoring).
• Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.

Ideally, you will have:

• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology and decentralization.
• A strong alignment to our principles
• Strong academic or engineering background.
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#), including FFI; we also welcome people with experience in Lisp/Haskell/Nix or similar.
• Experience with Open Source software.
• Experience with FFI and dealing with concurrency in polyglot environments and across different runtimes.

Bonus points if:

• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open source project.
• Experience with Nim
• Experience writing performant and non-trivial software in mobile environments, FFI concurrency, networking, cryptography.

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain us why in your application.]

Compensation:

We pay a competitive salary based on experience, plus a grant of Status Network Tokens vesting over a three-year period. More info on SNT here. For a full list of Status benefits, see here.

The hiring process for this role will be:

1. Interview with our People Ops team
2. Interview with Oskar, Vac protocol Research Lead
3. Technical challenge / peer Interview with Hanno, Vac Protocol Engineer
4. Interview with Jacek, Head Of Research

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.

Get to know us:

Find out about the Vac team here and Waku v2 here.