Backend Engineer; Distributed Systems Engineer

Location:
New York or London (Hybrid)

We’re a stealth-mode infrastructure venture building next‑gen primitives for decentralized execution. Our mission: rethink how distributed systems scale, sync, and self‑heal — with a focus on performance, modularity, and cryptographic integrity. Our team includes protocol veterans, systems engineers, and cryptography researchers pushing the limits of what’s possible in Web3 infra.

We’re hiring a Backend Engineer with deep distributed systems expertise to help architect and optimize our core infrastructure. You’ll work on low‑latency, high‑throughput systems that power decentralized coordination, execution, and data integrity across global nodes.

• Core backend services for distributed coordination and execution
• Fault‑tolerant systems that scale across thousands of nodes
• Performance‑critical modules for consensus, networking, and data pipelines
• Internal tooling for observability, testing, and simulation
• Contributions to open‑source infra and protocol‑level primitives

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in systems‑level environments
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, fault tolerance, and consensus mechanisms
• Strong command of Rust, Go, or C++ (Rust preferred)
• Experience with container orchestration, microservices, and cloud‑native infra
• Familiarity with blockchain, cryptographic protocols, or decentralized coordination

• Experience in zero‑knowledge systems, MPC, or verifiable computation
• Contributions to open‑source infra projects
• Prior work in Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchain development

• Stealth‑stage impact with protocol‑grade ownership
• Hybrid flexibility in NYC or London
• Work with a team of deep systems thinkers and protocol engineers