About the company
Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralised web. As an integral part of the Logos collective, Vac comprises R&D Service Units, Incubator Projects, Deep Research, and the RFC (specification) process for Logos projects. We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries, and publications. As custodians of these protocols, our aim is to adhere to a set of principles that ensure their alignment with our core values and objectives.
Job Summary
Key responsibilities
📍Implementing P2P networking protocols 📍Further architecture and development of the nim-libp2p implementation 📍Implement libp2p protocols according to existing specifications 📍Research and development of new p2p protocols and primitives 📍Working across teams to help with networking specific needs
You ideally will have
📍A passion for decentralization, p2p and privacy-preserving technology 📍Strong engineering background 📍Experience with encryption and key exchange mechanisms 📍Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C++/Go/Rust/Nim or Java/C# 📍Experience building networking-heavy applications and p2p networking specifically 📍Experience implementing with core networking protocols such as Websockets and/or Quic 📍Familiar with p2p building blocks such as gossiping, routing and discovery (DHTs), and Nat traversal 📍A strong alignment to our principles:https://status.im/about/#our-principles
