Data & Tooling Engineer

Protocol Labs is building the distributed web, though foundational protocols, primitives, and tooling for peer-to-peer collaboration such as:

• IPFS is a protocol & network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system.
• Filecoin is a token-incentivized data storage network for provable data preservation (https://youtu.be/EClPAFPeXIQ).
• libp2p is the peer-to-peer networking library of web3 used by IPFS, Filecoin, Ethereum2, Polkadot, & more.
• IPLD is the content-addressed data model of web3.
• DRAND is a verifiable, unpredictable, and unbiased distributed randomness beacon as a service.

Our systems improve how the web works, based on protocols like Git, DHTs, BitTorrent, Bitcoin, and SFS. We are focused on providing (a) a data-locality aware, secure network stack for distributed applications, and (b) a model for ambient and network-efficient storage.

• We focus on value-creation.
• We work on high-impact problems.
• We do things right, and we ship them.
• We do groundbreaking work in our fields.
• We believe learning and inventing go hand-in-hand.
• We align incentives, and work across organizations.
• We form brilliant and highly capable teams of people.
• We value ownership and autonomy over large projects.
• We work with flexible hours from all over the world.
• We get together in exotic and inspiring locations.