over 1 year ago
Remote, WorldwideMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor
Responsibilities
- Design and implement distributed systems components for Ritual's heterogeneous compute network.
- Develop and optimize peer-to-peer networking protocols for AI model execution and blockchain consensus.
- Build and maintain infrastructure for node monitoring, metrics collection, and system observability.
- Architect solutions for efficient state management and synchronization across specialized nodes.
- Collaborate with the research team to implement novel distributed systems algorithms.
- Create robust testing frameworks for distributed system components.
Requirements
- Deep expertise in Go and/or Rust with a track record of building production-grade distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of peer-to-peer systems, networking, and messaging protocols.
- Proven experience operating and developing blockchain nodes with knowledge of node architecture and consensus mechanisms.
- Experience optimizing high-throughput systems and implementing performance improvements at scale.
- Advanced Linux expertise with strong command line proficiency and system administration skills.
- Proficiency with infrastructure orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
- Mastery of monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.
- Experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed applications.
- Strong background in system design with the ability to make architectural decisions.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex distributed systems issues.
- Ability to act quickly under high pressure and context switch frequently.
- High level of end-to-end ownership and self-direction with excellent communication skills.
- Hungry, high-energy, and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure.
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus and optimized tax structure.
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space.
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare.
- Aggressive company 401k match.
- Fully remote and/or hybrid work options.
- Participate in virtual and in-person events.