About Codex

We’re a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology. We’re building the next generation storage engine that attempts to “untie the knot” of incentivized storage. Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward.

We’re looking for an experienced P2P Networking Protocol Engineer with hands-on experience designing and implementing state of the art networking protocols and distributed systems.

https://codex.storage/

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain state of the art p2p protocols and decentralized storage solutions

Coordinate with the ongoing testing efforts to identify and eliminate instabilities in the existing codebase and bring it to production levels quality

Implement and design new features as part of roadmap milestones

You ideally will have

Strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience

Experience with low level libp2p primitives

Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)

Experience with Open Source software

Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers

Strong networking (P2P systems) background

Good debugging skills

Good at explaining a complicated issue at varying levels of complexity for others to understand

A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Bonus points if

Familiarity with the Nim programming language

Familiarity with zero-knowledge proofs and other ZK-technology

Familiarity with advanced cryptographic hashing functions

[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 to us why in your cover letter]

Hiring Process

Interview with People Ops team

Interview with Codex team member

Technical Task

Interview with Codex team member

Interview with Codex Program Lead

Compensation

We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.

Salary and compensation

																										No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Testing and Engineer jobs that are similar:


																																							 $30,000 — $50,000/year

Benefits

												💰 401(k)

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🤓 Vision insurance

🦷 Dental insurance

🚑 Medical insurance

🏖 Unlimited vacation

🏖 Paid time off

📆 4 day workweek

💰 401k matching

🏔 Company retreats

🏬 Coworking budget

📚 Learning budget

💪 Free gym membership

🧘 Mental wellness budget

🖥 Home office budget

🥧 Pay in crypto

🥸 Pseudonymous

💰 Profit sharing

💰 Equity compensation

⬜️ No whiteboard interview

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

Location

Remote (Worldwide)