Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

Nillion is humanity’s first Blind Computer. It is powered by a decentralized network of nodes that enables “Blind Computation” through the coordination and orchestration of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) such as multi-party computation (MPC) and homomorphic encryption (HE). Nillion believes Blind Computation will become the internet’s base layer for all private data as PETs continue to mature. Nillion has attracted a notable initial cohort of Blind Computation builders across AI, DeFi, medical data, custody, wallets, global identity, messaging and much more.

As reported by TechCrunch, Nillion in the midst of the bear market of 2022 raised the highest valuation for a Seed Round reported in Q4-2022. The project has attracted some of the top talent in tech, including the Founder of Indiegogo (Slava Rubin), Associate General Counsel of Coinbase (Lindsay Danas Cohen), Co-Founder of Hedera Hashgraph (Andrew Masanto) and several other high profile team members.

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help design and build our Layer 1 Solution, including guardrails, and load balancing features, with a view towards re-architecting and improving latency across our distributed infrastructure.

Nillion is a remote-first organization primarily focused on European and US East Coast time zones. Some travel may be required.

Requirements

Essential Requirements

• 3-4 years programming experience with Rust and its toolchain or equivalent compiled programming language such as Python, Java, Haskell, C++ or Golang.
• Prior knowledge of how to build highly-available and scalable distributed systems.
• Appreciation of user-friendly and powerful CLI tools and client libraries
• Active or use of Cosmos blockchains or equivalent.

Nice to have

• Expertise with DevOps technologies such as Linux, Docker, Terraform, AWS/GCP and bare metal operating environments, Jenkins or equivalents.
• Prior familiarity with Storage systems like S3 or equivalent
• Previous experience owning or contributing to popular open source projects. Ideally with MPC or FHE Libraries, Packages or Toolkits.

Responsibilities:

• You'll work on our Rust codebase in maintaining a high quality internal devex and build pipeline.
• In collaboration with our team you'll help improve our orchestration layer and gRPC API for our decentralized network which includes the interplay of several privacy-enhancing technologies, protocols and virtual machines which combines dynamic pricing algorithms and congestion control algorithms.
• Projects include implementing our SDK which includes CLI tools, JS/TS and Python client libraries which interface with the Orchestration and Coordination layer.
• This role will include building the integrations between Nillion’s Orchestration Layer and its Coordination Layer.
• You'll also help build storage interfaces and data layout across multiple operating environments, e.g. cloud and bare metal.
• This role will maintain our mostly Rust codebase out in the open, maintaining a balance between delivering features and responding to community feedback/reports.
• You'll also collaborate and contribute to our DevOps team and repo by designing and implementing changes to our Node Deployment Kit (NDK) and supporting infrastructure and pipelines.

Benefits

We offer the following perks as part of employment with Nillion:

• Flexible working hours to accommodate lifestyles and a globally distributed team
• Competitive compensation package
• Make a big impact as a early contributor to an incredible founding team
• Work on new problems in an incredible emerging and dynamic field
• Learn from systems engineering, cryptography and product domain experts in a mentorship-oriented work culture
• You don’t need to be in an office or at a desk to have an impact anymore! We are fully remote, but value regular meet-ups.

In summary, if you are interested in web3 infrastructure, innovation, new technology, and are interested in working with a high-caliber team, please apply. Nillion is committed to shaping a better world in all that they do. Their global team is built based on respect, inclusivity, diversity and excellence.

For more information on either the technology or company, there are several lectures at leading universities about the project such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, New York University, Columbia, and MIT. You can also visit Nillion’s early website at www.nillion.com.