As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will join the Ceramic Core Protocol Team in working on and learning from problems related to distributed consensus, sharding, peer-to-peer networking, cryptography, object capability systems, blockchain system design, and more. Success looks like... You have collaborated with colleagues and contributed heavily adding several key capabilities to the Ceramic Protocol and other core products, built with consideration for scalability, and test coverage to ensure a high quality implementation.You have helped mature the Ceramic testing infrastructure to enable us to ship new versions and features quickly while maintaining a high bar of qualityYou have helped improve the experience for developers building on Ceramic. Every feature or API you work on is clear, well-documented, and free of any major surprises. Overall developers find Ceramic easy to understand and build onYou have honed your skills (and learned new ones) contributing to cutting edge technology in one or more of the following disciplines: horizontally scaling the peer-to-peer pubsub network while maintaining strong peer connectivity; adding cryptographically enforced data confidentiality and an Object Capability-based access control system; building out our test infrastructure to enable complex multi-node testing scenarios;You have worked with the community to increase understanding and adoption of Ceramic by doing such things as improving documentation, answering community questions, speaking publicly about Ceramic, etc. Salary range: $115-$210K depending on seniority and location. We understand everyone's risk preferences and life situation is different so we can offer flexibility here. Our goal is to extend a fair and exciting offer, while preserving fairness across the team.
As a Protocol Engineer, you will join the Ceramic team building ComposeDB, our decentralized Graph Database, and the Ceramic Event Streaming layer (think decentralized Kafka) that powers it. Success looks like... You have collaborated with colleagues and contributed heavily towards adding several key capabilities to the Ceramic Protocol and other core products, built with consideration for scalability, maintainability, and test coverage to ensure a high quality implementation.You have helped improve the experience for developers building on Ceramic. Every feature or API you work on is clear, well-documented, and free of any major surprises. Overall, developers find Ceramic easy to understand and build onYou have helped mature the Ceramic testing infrastructure to enable us to ship new versions and features quickly while maintaining a high bar of qualityYou have honed your skills (and developed new ones) contributing to cutting edge technology such as: horizontally scaling the peer-to-peer network; adding cryptographically enforced data confidentiality; adding support for collaborative multi-writer data structures; building out our test infrastructure to enable complex multi-node testing scenariosYou have worked with the community to increase understanding and adoption of Ceramic by doing such things as improving documentation, answering community questions, speaking publicly about Ceramic, etc. Salary range: $115-$210K depending on seniority and location. We understand everyone's risk preferences and life situation is different so we can offer flexibility here. Our goal is to extend a fair and exciting offer, while preserving fairness across the team.