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Software Engineer, Comet

Interchain Labs
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 2/12/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/11/2025

We are joining the Interchain Foundation , and are rebranding Skip to Interchain Inc., as we become the ICF's main development, product, and growth subsidiary! Read the announcement to learn more.

Who we are

Interchain Inc (formerly, Skip) leads development for the Cosmos Hub, ecosystem, and stackthe leading platform for building sovereign, interoperable blockchains. We're dedicated to offering developers full-stack programmability, complete ownership of their economics, and best-in-class distribution to users everywhere.

Our mission is to build a more free, more fair internet with the Cosmos platform at the core. The best teams already build with Cosmos across every category : defi (dYdX, Osmosis, Injective), infrastructure (Babylon, Celestia, Initia), Depin / AI (Akash, Artificial Superintelligence Alliance, Allora), privacy (Nillion, Penumbra), and many more. We want to help these teams and many more help bring the values of sovereignty and decentralization to the rest of the internet by developing the Cosmos stack and hub.

We focus on hiring the core team and senior talent to work together in person in NYC to build a collaborative and supportive culture. But we're still open to hiring best-in-class remote talent anywhere within 6 hours of the NYC timezone.

Core team member responsibilities

  • Work to solve hard technical problems at the cutting edge of blockchain research alongside the founders.
  • Be empowered to make bold technical and strategic decisions.
  • Play a critical role in determining the people we hire, our culture, our engineering practices, and the products we ship.

How we work

  • We value ambition, work ethic, and m (slope) over prestige, accomplishments, and y-intercept.
  • We value thoughtful and contentious dialogue over siloed and unilateral decision-making.
  • We value acknowledging uncertainty / weakness and seeking support over unabated confidence and solo performances.
  • We're obsessive about documenting everything, learning, and shipping as fast as possible with short feedback cycles.
  • Interchain Inc is committed to inclusion.

    Interchain Inc. is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourages individuals from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We believe the purpose of crypto is to expand who has agency in society, which starts at home, by empowering people with diverse gender identities, ethnic backgrounds, and life experiences within our own organization. Interchain Inc. offers dedicated mentorship to support personal growth and a bright career in crypto.

    Benefits

    18 days of paid leave

    Premium health insurance

    Competitive regional compensation and token compensation

    Office space and accommodations for remote work

    We're open to arranging paid work trials with potential hires because we think interviews give a very limited view of candidates and the company.

    Description : We are looking for a Software Engineer to develop and optimize CometBFT, the consensus engine behind the Cosmos ecosystem.

    The ideal candidate believes decentralization and trust minimization are critical to ensuring a bright and open future for the internet. They care deeply about writing clear and maintainable code, not just solving tasks quickly. They believe that thoughtful software design and thorough testing processes speed up, rather than slow down development. Someone who doesn't enjoy building in public and interacting with their users won't excel in this role.

    Role

  • Build and maintain core components of CometBFT so that it can provide reliable, performant BFT consensus for billions of dollars of assets
  • Serve as the expert on and primary owner of a critical sub-system in CometBFT (e.g. p2p gossip, block propagation, etc...)
  • Troubleshoot and resolve distributed systems issues with customers and team members.
  • Contribute to testing, monitoring, and observability systems to ensure our software works in production across 100 diverse blockchains
  • Qualifications

  • Requirements :
  • 2 years of software engineering experience.

  • Proficiency in Go or similar languages.
  • Bonus :
  • Expertise in consensus algorithms and similar areas of distributed systems research

  • Experience developing or contributing to blockchains
  • Familiarity with open-source development practices.
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