Fully remote worldwide position
Lagrange Labs is looking to hire a Distributed System Engineer to join our fast growing team. The ideal candidate would have familiarity developing production level distributed systems in Rust with familiarity with cryptography.Our team (https://www.lagrange.dev/) is currently building ZK MapReduce, a novel proof system that is designed for concurrently proving large-scale batch storage inclusion and dynamic MapReduce style computations. At the core of the ZK MapReduce stack is Recproofs, a new vector commitment scheme developed by the Lagrange Labs research team.Recproofs are optimized for onchain applications that require computing and efficiently maintain a proof over a moving stream of blocks.
Each proof can be updated in logarithmic time whenever the leaves in a subset change or the overall set changes.Our proofs are already being used to empower new applications ranging from trustless DeFi primitives computed from historical data, to digest transformations for ZK-rollups to verifiable public goods funding based on onchain activity.
What you will be doing
Lagrange Labs is looking for a talented distributed system engineers to lay the foundation for our distributed proving architecture lying at the foundation of our zk map-reduce service. This requires rigorous engineering from protocol design through all the phases of implementation. We strike a balance between pragmatism (ship it), deeply informed protocol design, and strict application of strong engineering principles. All of this happens in an environment defined by curiosity, passion, and a love for open source.
- You will be participating in a cross team environements with applied cryptographers and researchers to design and implement an elegant, reusable open-source solution for Lagrange’s distributed proving architecture
- You will create and/or maintain software libraries and programs depended on by other systems and applications in the stack.
- You will have the opportunity to drive the design decisions from the ground.
- You will engage and educate the community, from users to contributors
What we’re looking for
- Significant experience building applications using Go or Rust
- Our stack is in Rust, but we’re looking for talented people in distributed systems regardless of the their language background
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles (required)
- Understanding Divide and Conquer concepts (e.g., MapReduce)
- Distributed Databases such as MongoDB or MariaDB
- Understanding the basics of sharding
- Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and Blockchain
- Experience designing and building distributed and/or p2p software systems and applications.
- Experience Implementing DHTs, consensus (Raft/PAXOS) and/or blockchain-based protocols (preferred)
- Literacy with cryptographic principles and practices (signatures, SNARKs, etc)
- Especially in the blockchain context
- Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues
- Proven track record of independently driving projects in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
- Competitive salary + equity and token package
- Team offsites and conference travel
- Fully remote with flexible hours
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Top-tier health, dental, and vision coverage for US employees
Why Lagrange?
- Opportunity to work alongside other top-tier and passionate researchers and engineers
- Respectful team culture with high individual ownership of your work
- Be a part of developing groundbreaking solutions that can be a key piece of infrastructure for the crypto industry.
- Ability to contribute to high impact research publications
