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Senior Engineer (P2P & Rust)

The Institute of Free Technology (IFT) is a mission-driven tech startup studio that supports the development of open-source projects focused on safeguarding civil liberties in the digital age. They provide financial, technical, legal, and operational support to a portfolio of projects including Status, Logos, and Waku.

Institute of Free Technology

Employee count: 201-500

Nomos was created by Logos to be the infrastructure facilitating the creation of network states and enabling people to easily interact with them. Using Nomos, network states are implemented as lightweight blockchains known as Zones, with an underlying chain providing consensus, security, and interoperability. Importantly, network states implemented on Nomos allow for social order to emerge and govern their operations, all while preserving critical properties that guarantee individual freedoms for all participants. These include privacy for users and infrastructure providers, censorship resistance, resilience against attacks, and credible neutrality.

To join Nomos's team, we are looking for a SENIOR Engineer with strong Rust & P2P experience.

Responsibilities:

  • Implement and optimise decentralised P2P protocols for network infrastructure
  • Build production-level P2P network components based on technical specifications
  • Develop proof-of-concepts for peer-to-peer communication layers
  • Engineer resilient distributed systems for Byzantine fault-tolerant environments
  • Analyse and optimise real-world P2P network performance (latency, throughput, node scalability)
  • Maintain and enhance Rust-based P2P networking stack

Requirements:

  • Solid experience in Rust (non-negotiable!)
  • Proven P2P engineering experience: Implementation of peer discovery, data propagation, or network topologies; & building decentralised systems in Byzantine environments
  • Ability to operationalise P2P research into production code
  • Proven Distributed Systems experience: Strong knowledge of consensus mechanisms, distributed storage, or gossip protocols; & performance tuning of large-scale node networks
  • Computer Science/Math fundamentals (cryptography, algorithms, networking)
  • Strong technical communication (code documentation, system diagrams)
  • Strong interest in privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant and open protocols

Bonus Points:

  • Proven experience with: DHTs, gossip protocols, BFT consensus, or P2P network resilience techniques.

Hiring Process:

The hiring process for this role will be:

  1. Interview with our POps team
  2. Interview with Team Member
  3. Interview with Team Lead
  4. Interview with Logos Program Lead

Compensation:

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

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Open to candidates from all countries.

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Worldwide

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We are the Institute of Free Technology (IFT), a mission-driven tech startup studio that emerged from Status, which we, Jarrad Hope and Carl Bennetts, founded in 2017. Our initial goal with Status was to enable the free flow of information and protect the right to private, secure conversations. However, as we delved deeper, we recognized gaps in the existing infrastructure needed to fully realize these values. This realization led to an expansion of our project's scope and ultimately, the formation of IFT and the startups it now incubates. Our core mission is to support the development, adoption, and accessibility of solutions to digital age problems. We are guided by a strong set of principles: liberty, censorship resistance, security, privacy, and inclusivity. We actively seek to connect with and support innovators who are dedicated to defending our digital rights.

At IFT, we provide comprehensive support to take ideas from the drawing board to market. This includes financial backing, technical expertise, legal guidance, people operations, and brand-building assistance at every stage. We empower our startups to concentrate on their core strength: building public goods designed to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age. Our portfolio of open source projects is continually growing and currently includes prominent names like Status, Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Nomos, and Keycard. As a team, IFT has been completely distributed since its inception. We boast a strong core of over 220 contributors from diverse backgrounds, spread across the globe. We are deeply passionate about open source, and our organizational structure reflects this with minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We champion a high degree of autonomy, encouraging our team members to work independently while aligning with the organization's overarching priorities.

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Co-working space

Access to co-working spaces is provided.

Unlimited vacation

We offer unlimited vacation to our contributors.

Entirely remote

Our team is completely distributed since inception.

Flexible working hours

Our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours.

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201-500 employees

Founded in

2017

Chief executive officer

Jarrad Hope, Carl Bennetts

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