Mysten LabsML

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Mysten Labs is a Web3 infrastructure company building foundational tools to accelerate the adoption of decentralized technologies, and is the original contributor to the Sui blockchain.

Mysten Labs

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 150k-225k USD

United States only

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.

Distributed Systems Engineers design and implement Mysten’s safe, secure and performant decentralized platform, Sui. They have core expertise in designing systems involving asynchronous networking, safe distributed systems (byzantine and crash-tolerant), distributed storage, and high performance execution runtimes for VMs.

They work closely with programming language technologies experts to ensure execution engines run correctly, and efficiently and product engineers to ensure the platform supports the transactions and operations required by users.

What You'll Have:

  • Have 5+ years of experience in hands-on software engineering, including methodologies to ensure correctness and performance of implemented components.

  • Had a substantial role in the design and implementation of a large distributed system.

  • Have experience with the design and evaluation of secure systems, incl. secure programming, appropriate use of cryptography, and prevention of DoS attacks.

  • Be fluent in writing design documentation as well as participating in technical discussions and reviews synchronously, asynchronously, in person or remotely.

  • Be fluent in a systems’ language such as Rust which is used within Mysten or C++ etc

  • Have a level of expertise in one or more of networking, distributed systems, storage, databases, operating systems, and runtimes to be able to read research papers in the field and design systems based on them.

  • Have a lay persons’ interest in open, decentralized, permissionless technologies, and the intersection of contemporary technology, economics, finance and governance.

  • We especially encourage engineers that fulfill some of the above with no prior experience of working on blockchain technologies

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!

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Salary: 150k-225k USD

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Mysten Labs is dedicated to solving foundational challenges to bring web3 to the masses. Many potential users and developers find current crypto infrastructure complex and limiting. For instance, the scalability of existing blockchains and the interoperability of smart contracts often hinder broader adoption. This is why Mysten Labs is focused on building a more secure, reliable, and user-friendly decentralized web stack. Our customers, ranging from individual creators to large enterprises, face hurdles in truly owning their data and content in the digital realm. We aim to provide them with the tools and infrastructure necessary to overcome these obstacles and unlock the full potential of web3.

Our core mission is to accelerate the adoption of decentralized protocols. We achieve this by developing foundational infrastructure that addresses the most notorious problems in blockchain technology, such as restrictive storage methods and unsafe programmability models. By tackling these issues, we enable developers to build innovative applications without compromising on functionality or user experience. Mysten Labs is the original contributor to the Sui blockchain, a Layer 1 platform designed for high throughput, low latency, and low cost, making it suitable for powering applications for billions of users. We believe that decentralized and open protocols are the bedrock of the internet of value, and we are committed to creating the systems that will make this vision a reality for everyone. Our team, composed of experienced engineers and researchers in distributed systems, cryptography, and programming languages, is driven to build a better playing field for the internet of tomorrow, empowering individuals and creators with unprecedented ownership.

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