Distributed Systems Engineer (remote)

Fluence is looking for a Software Engineer to join the backend team which is working on the end-to-end encrypted decentralized database.We are a distributed team building product on the edge of current research, so looking for engineers who can not only write production-level code, but also read papers, define requirements and boundaries, invent something new and publish new papers. We have a bunch of challenging and not entirely solved problems like: 

• Decentralized nodes discovery 
• Private blockchain technology 
• Encrypted databases in a hostile environment 
• Data replication and consensus protocols 
• Nodes incentivization and service level agreements enforcement 

Skills which are nice to have: 

• We are using Scala, so it would be great if you have an experience in that. Interest in functional programming languages is appreciated. 
• Experience with large scale databases / distributed systems design like Cassandra, Kafka, Spark or Druid. 
• Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures – it actually will be used! 
• Interest in decentralized applications and blockchain technology. 
• An ability to work in a decentralized team, take responsibilities and be a self-starter.

Papers we find relevant: 

• Ethereum white paper 
• Storj white paper 
• ZeroDB white paper 
• Raft: In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm 
• Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System 
• Kafka: a Distributed Messaging System for Log Processing