Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Institute of Free Technology (IFT)
Global
fulltime
Posted 4 days ago
Job Description
Summary
We are a social movement and decentralised technology stack built to revitalise civil society.
The job:
You will design and implement liblogos, a modular plugin runtime for decentralised nodes, while optimising IPC, strengthening module isolation, fault-tolerance, scalability, and security. You will also collaborate with teams to build and test modules, like our Logos blockchain, messaging and storage modules.
Responsibilities:
- Help design and implement liblogos, which provides a modular plugin-based runtime for decentralized nodes and applications.
- Optimize IPC performance.
- Improve isolation (also in regards to efficiency), fault tolerance, independent scalability, and secure boundaries of modules to prevent cross-module vulnerabilities.
- Collaborate with component teams to build and test modules like decentralised nodes.
You ideally have:
- Proficiency in systems programming languages including C, C++, Rust, and Nim.
- Experience with plugin architectures, dynamic loading, and package managers for modular runtime systems.
- Strong understanding of microkernel principles: minimal core, service isolation, fault tolerance, and extensibility without core modifications.
- Experience with Linux namespaces and cgroups for process isolation, containerization techniques, and achieving microkernel-style separation in user-space environments.
- Knowledge of IPC optimization, and low-level performance tuning in multi-process environments.
- Experience in network programming.
Bonus points!
- Experience working for an open-source organization.
- Knowledge of type theory and programming language foundations.
- Experience with peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain, or cryptography.
Hiring Process:
- Intro Call with our POps team
- One or two technical interviews
- Home assignment
- Interview with co-founder
Compensation:
We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
Required Skills
CC++LinuxRust
About the Company
Institute of Free Technology (IFT)
Internet Software & Services
251 - 500 Founded 2024
The Institute of Free Technology is a mission-driven tech startup studio. We take ideas from the drawing board to market with financial, technical, legal, people operations, and brand-building support at every step. Our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.
As a mission-driven tech startup studio, Institute of Free Technology provides Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects such as Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Status, Nomos, Keycard.
We take ideas from the drawing board to market; our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.
As a mission-driven tech startup studio, Institute of Free Technology provides Technical, Financial, Legal, People Operations, Branding & awareness services to a wide portfolio of open source projects such as Logos, Codex, Waku, Nimbus, Status, Nomos, Keycard.
We take ideas from the drawing board to market; our startups are free to focus on what they do best — building public goods to safeguard civil liberties in the digital age.
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