Senior Distributed Systems Software Engineer NYC

Who We Are

Our client is a decentralized policy engine for smarter contracts. It enables developers to abstract away and seamlessly maintain their protocol s rule system ensuring that their smart contracts are always uptodate with the latest requirements. This unique capability combined with our innovative approach to pretransaction computation allows client to enforce diverse and complex rules from NFT royalty enforcement to flowoffunds checks on transactions for any protocol. Our client stands at the intersection of policy and decentralization empowering developers to retain comprehensive control over the formulation and ownership of their policies. At its core Aethos is unifying the flexibility and autonomy of policy enforcement with the integrity and security of blockchain technology.

About The Role

As a founding team member you ll have the opportunity to contribute to strategic decisions help shape software architecture and make an immediate impact on some of the world s most successful crypto projects. You will contribute to the design implementation and performance of the distributed system that underlies the protocol.

Use your distributed systems engineering knowledge to design and implement backend services prototypes and tools

Propose write and explain technical designs approaches and solutions

Engage in the team s design and code reviews standups and agile development processes

Constantly learn new concepts ideas and frameworks from your peers

Stay updated on the latest methodologies and technologies in distributed node infrastructure to ensure that our product remain at the forefront of the industry

Requirements

Were looking for someone that has

BS/MS in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience

5 years of software development experience with distributed systems

2 years of experience with Golang

Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Experience building owning and operating highscale distributed systems

Extensive knowledge in professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development lifecycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes automated functional and performance testing

Bonus: experience with or a strong interest in zeroknowledge proofs

Bonus: experience with key technologies we use across the blockchain industry

You recognize that decentralization ethos and community in crypto are different from other professional software industries and you want to embrace and improve it

Benefits

We re backed by some of the best investors in the industry and offer competitive pay equity and full benefits. This is a US/CA remote position with a strong preference for NYC.

Flexible and remote work environment

Employer covered bestinclass health dental and vision insurance

Unlimited sick time

Quarterly team onsite events

BS/MS in a technical field such as Computer Science or equivalent experience 5+ years of software development experience with distributed systems 2+ years of experience with Golang Experience with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Experience building, owning, and operating high-scale distributed systems Extensive knowledge in professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life-cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, automated functional and performance testing Bonus: experience with or a strong interest in zero-knowledge proofs Bonus: experience with key technologies we use across the blockchain industry You recognize that decentralization ethos and community in crypto are different from other professional software industries, and you want to embrace and improve it