Protocol Research Engineer (Protocol Incentivization)

You ideally will have

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
  
• A strong academic background.
  
• Experience with token economics.
  
• Experience with protocol incentivization.
  
• Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.
  
• Experience with game theory.
  
• 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.
  
• A Master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on computer networks.
  
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  

Bonus points if 

• A PhD degree in an area related to computer networks.
  
• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open source project.
  
• In in the Ethereum community.
  
• Experience with cryptography such as OTR, X3DH, Noise protocol.
  
• Experience with Nim.
  
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p
  

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

You ideally will have

• A passion for blockchain technology, privacy-preserving technology and decentralization.
  
• A strong academic background.
  
• Experience with token economics.
  
• Experience with protocol incentivization.
  
• Experience designing incentive systems and writing/deploying smart contracts in Ethereum.
  
• Experience with game theory.
  
• 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.
  
• A Master’s degree in Computer Science with a focus on computer networks.
  
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles
  

Bonus points if 

• A PhD degree in an area related to computer networks.
  
• Contributed to a blockchain-related, open source project.
  
• In in the Ethereum community.
  
• Experience with cryptography such as OTR, X3DH, Noise protocol.
  
• Experience with Nim.
  
• Experience with off-the-shelf networking stacks such as libp2p / devp2p
  

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

• Research and develop open P2P protocols for secure messaging.
  
• Build incentivized, distributed systems.
  
• Research incentives for nodes to provide resources and/or offer services in P2P protocols.
  
• Use a layered protocol approach that is mindful and explicit about what it requires, what it provides, under what threat models, and with what trade-offs.
  
• Combine cryptoeconomics and traditional technologies to create a sustainable, scalable, distributed, and fault-tolerant system.
  
• Use libp2p to build application-level protocols.
  
• Interpret and implement solutions based on academic research.
  
• Provide feedback on overall design decisions, and participate in code reviews.
  
• Write Nim code