Engineer
Commonware develops the Commonware Library: modular primitives for building specialized blockchains and onchain applications. Its tooling covers consensus, cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, storage, deployment, and related infrastructure.
Projects
About Commonware, Inc.
Commonware, Inc. develops the Commonware Library, a collection of composable primitives for blockchain builders. The library provides components for Byzantine consensus, encrypted peer-to-peer communication, cryptography, authenticated storage, erasure coding, deployment, and runtime execution. It is intended for developers building specialized blockchains and onchain applications, with example implementations including Alto and Constantinople.
Skills
About the Role
You'll join a lean, focused team building open (MIT/Apache-2) primitives meant to be remixed and modded into novel blockchain infrastructure. Rather than being assigned narrow tasks, you'll direct your own focus toward the highest priority problems in your area of deep expertise. Depending on your background, you might spend your time streaming unstructured data over globally distributed infrastructure, designing and testing onchain execution environments, optimizing cryptographic primitives with math and assembly, pushing embedded databases to their performance limits, or crafting intuitive experiences for users exploring fast blockchains. You'll work closely with a small, senior team of former engineering leaders and researchers, and gather in person at the Palo Alto office every few months.
Requirements
- Based in the United States
- Experience leading a productive engineering organization
- Experience maintaining a large open-source codebase, especially in Rust
- Understanding of the difference between writing code and writing the right code
Responsibilities
- Stream unstructured data over globally distributed infrastructure
- Design and test onchain execution environments
- Optimize cryptographic primitives using math and assembly
- Push the performance of embedded databases to the limit
- Craft intuitive experiences for users to explore fast blockchains
