Engineer
Commonware provides a library of primitives and tools for building custom, high-performance blockchain and peer-to-peer applications. It is positioned as an 'anti-framework,' offering modular components for functions like consensus, cryptography, and p2p networking, enabling developers to create specialized onchain systems.
Projects
About Commonware
Commonware provides a library of modular components, or 'primitives,' for building specialized and high-performance blockchain and peer-to-peer systems. It offers tools for a wide range of functionalities including data dissemination (broadcast), data serialization (codec), Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus, cryptography, infrastructure deployment, peer-to-peer communication, data resolution, and storage. Positioned as an 'anti-framework,' Commonware contrasts with one-size-fits-all blockchain stacks by allowing developers to select and combine components to fit the specific needs of their application. Examples built with the library include 'alto,' a minimal and fast blockchain, and demonstrations of cross-network bridges and encrypted chat applications.
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