Sr. Software Engineer, Walrus Core

Posted 16 Days Ago
29 Locations
Remote
Senior level
Web3
The Role
Join Mysten Labs as a Senior Software Engineer on the Walrus Core team to design and maintain decentralized storage infrastructure while ensuring performance, security, and reliability.
Summary Generated by Built In

Mysten Labs believes that decentralized and open protocols are the bedrock of the internet of value. This is why at Mysten Labs, we are creating foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols based on blockchain technologies.

Join the Walrus Core team at Mysten Labs, where you'll be at the forefront of building the company's newest distributed system: Walrus, an efficient decentralized storage network. The Core team is dedicated to developing the software that powers Walrus’ storage nodes and its infrastructure. As a part of this team, you'll be responsible for the safety-critical core of the Walrus network. Our goals are to continually make Walrus more useful to builders while maintaining very high standards for safety,reliability, and efficiency.

We're seeking engineers with a passion for systems programming in all its forms, be it storage systems, distributed systems, or low-level performance optimization. Your role will involve enhancing the performance and reliability of the Walrus network, contributing to the core protocol design, and ensuring secure and efficient network operations. You will be a key player in evolving Mysten Labs’ web3 landscape to meet the growing demands of the ecosystem.

What You’ll Do:

  • Design, implement, and maintain Walrus core, including storage node, client software, smart contracts and toolchains that power Walrus and its infrastructure.

  • Work closely with the research, cryptography, production, security teams, and Sui core teams, to keep the Walrus network secure, performant, and reliable.

  • Optimize existing systems for scalability, efficiency, and reliability.

  • Collaborate with other teams at Mysten Labs to integrate new features and technologies.

What You’ll Have:

  • 5 years of experience in systems and/or network programming, ideally in Rust, C or C++.

  • Experience designing and developing systems in one or more of the following areas: Distributed systems and consensus protocols, storage/database systems, high performance systems, or networking protocols.

  • Production experience: operating and managing production systems, proficiency in system monitoring and alerting, with strong focus on reliability.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

  • Proven ability to drive complex projects to completion.

If you have it…Nice!:

  • Experience with Rust.

  • Previous work on blockchain technology or cryptographic protocols.

  • Significant contributions to open source projects.

  • Research experience formal (Msc/PhD Degree) or informal on relevant computer science topics

Our team is remote first and we are hiring across the world. Here at Mysten Labs, you’ll be joining a world-class team with tremendous growth potential as we bring the next billion users to web3. We raised a $300M Series B round from top Silicon Valley led venture funds like Jump Crypto, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Binance Labs, Redpoint, Lightspeed, Coinbase Ventures, Electric Capital, Standard Crypto, NFX, Slow Ventures, Scribble Ventures, Samsung Next, Lux Capital, among other investment firms and strategic partners. Come join us and build the future of web3!

Top Skills

C
C++
Rust
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The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
61 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2021

What We Do

We create foundational infrastructure to accelerate web3 adoption!

Come join us! We are looking for researchers and engineers, product builders, entrepreneurs in fields spanning distributed systems, cryptography, compiler & VM, programming language, verification, and game theory.

https://jobs.lever.co/mystenlabs

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