closed vacancySr. Distributed Systems Engineer - World's first Serverless Super Cloud Startup - remote

Company: Akash Network
Role: Senior Backend Engineer, Full time
Office Location: San Francisco - Fully Remote
Salary: $150K - $200k (depending on experience and work location) + Attractive Equity.

Akash is the serverless super cloud on a mission to make cloud infrastructure censorship-resistant, self-sovereign and open -- aligned with the foundational principles of the internet.

Akash Network

• The world’s first serverless super cloud and offers compute at a fraction of a cost (10x lower) than the market.
• Raised over $6 million from notable silicon venture capitalists.
• Founded by notable open-source developers Adam Bozanich, and Greg Osuri.
• You will be amongst the first 20 employees in a fast-growing company and expected to double the team size by year-end.

Requirements

• You have at least 5 years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency writing production-quality code, preferably in GoLang
• Strong familiarity with distributed programming models
• Deep understanding of all things “cloud infrastructure”- architectures, optimization, scalability, etc
• Excellent communication skills
• You are amazingly entrepreneurial
• You want to help build a massive company
• You must feel comfortable working remotely

Technical Skills: GoLang, Kubernetes (programming), Network and System Design, Cloud Infrastructure Automation.

Nice to have

• Notable Opensource Contributions
• Working with edge deployments (low-latency and distributed)
• Programming Language Design
• Experience in building public decentralized ledgers (Blockchain)
• Experience with serverless technologies
• Distributed systems Experience.