[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer, Flow Protocol, Execution @Flow Foundation

Role Description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help us build the best decentralized computer in the world, and make it ready for mainstream web3 adoption with 1M transactions processed per second and petabytes of non-sharded on-chain state.

In this role you will be working on the core components of Flow protocol, contributing to evolving its architecture and design to improve performance, scalability and reliability, ensure autonomous operation and interoperability with the wider web3 ecosystem.

• Build an innovative blockchain as the foundation for an entire ecosystem of consumer applications, starting with games, collectibles, and the apps that interact with them.
• Defy accepted wisdom on the scalability of blockchain platforms.
• Design, develop, and deploy new systems that enhance throughput, latency, availability, and security.
• Maintain, improve and optimize existing systems.
• Support Flow network operations and incidents.
• Ensure that our work is ethical and values-driven to create a positive impact on the world.

Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems, scalability, and algorithm engineering experience, preferably in Golang.
• Experienced in building a path to successful delivery from situations with high technical ambiguity, including writing Software Design proposals and building consensus with key stakeholders.
• Experience with building scalable solutions in a resource-constrained environment, performance optimization and profiling.
• Ability to maintain and operate high-availability service.
• Experience with web3 ecosystem and smart contract development.
• Enjoys and understands the nuances of working with a developer community in public.
• Knowledge of byzantine-fault-tolerant system design.

Requirements

• Comfortable with solving ambiguous problems in a rapidly evolving environment.
• Can pivot quickly when necessary.
• Understand the value of clear, well-tested, documented, easily maintainable and performant code.
• Appreciate direct communication.