Software Engineer [Go]

About Celestia Labs

Celestia is the first modular blockchain network. By decoupling consensus from execution, Celestia enables anyone to easily deploy their own blockchain, without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. Blockchains on Celestia are free from constraints, making them scalable, sovereign, and secure.

About the Team

The Celestia Labs Team is remote first and highly distributed, with English as our primary language for communication. We are looking for self-starters that are excited about working in a fast-paced startup environment. We do not require team members to live in specific timezones, but much of the team lives and works in the European timezones. As such, team members are expected to be available as needed for team and company events that are scheduled. Generally these are scheduled between 1pm-6pm CET.

About You

Celestia Labs is looking for an elite Software Engineer to join the Celestia Node Team. You will be working on a highly technical team, operating across a cutting edge set of disciplines to support continued improvement of Celestia’s node software as we solve data availability for teams building whatever.

This role will be of specific interest if working at the frontier of performance, scalability, storage, p2p networking and security in blockchain systems appeals to you with a heavy bias for shipping.

Perks

• Flexible and remote work environment with multiple onsites each year
• Competitive salary and meaningful long-term compensation package
• Stipends for home office, coworking space, professional and personal growth
• 4 weeks annual vacation
• 401k and healthcare coverage for US team members
• Being part of a collaborative, supportive team with opportunities for mentorship and professional growth

Responsibilities

• Ownership of parts of the Celestia Node codebase
• Contribute readable, well-tested, and well-documented code to Node and related repositories
• Participate in technical discussions on issues and code reviews on pull requests
• Be a part of the feedback loop between technical specification and implementation
• Work with users and support them with debugging on various channels and ensure their

Who You Are

• Self driven, directed, and motivated for excellence
• A strong communicator with excellent technical writing, with experience in building maintainable and well-documented codebases
• Possess solid knowledge of software engineering, technical principles, and technical architectures, with at least 5 years of real-world experience as a developer or engineer
• Highly Proficient in Golang
• Previous experience maintaining or contributing to open source software

While experience in the blockchain space is preferred – having general excitement about web3 and modular blockchain technology is a must!