Protocol Engineer Native Libraries

Waku is part of the Logos tech stack, a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms. As a p2p messaging protocol, born from the original Web3 vision, Waku is a decentralized, censorship-resistant, privacy-preserving communication network that enables anyone to message, interact, collaborate, co-ordinate without worrying about surveillance or deplatforming.

We are a cypherpunk group, looking for other builders to join a principle-first organisation and build truly decentralised software.

• Implement open protocols for peer-to-peer secure messaging.
• Create and maintain a sustainable and fault-tolerant distributed system.
• Write and maintain Nim code (nwaku codebase).
• Understand and optimise the core functionality of complex software systems.
• Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
• Use libp2p to build infrastructure-level protocols.
• Support platforms and operators using nwaku software.
• Maintain Golang, Rust and other language SDKs built on top of FFI bindings.

• A passion for privacy-preserving, decentralised and blockchain technology.
• At least 4 years of software engineering experience, with low-level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust).
• Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically.
• Familiarity with message propagation in loosely connected networks.
• Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal.

• Embedded systems development experience.
• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open-source project.
• Experience with Valgrind, or gdb, or gprof or perf.
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p.

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