Distributed Systems Engineer (Go)

What is Digital Asset?

Digital Asset is a leading provider of distributed ledger technology (DLT) that solves real-world business challenges. We combine deep industry expertise with scalable technology, including a distributed ledger platform and an intuitive smart contract language originally developed by Digital Asset, called DAML. Digital Asset enables financial institutions and organizations across a variety of industries to bring efficient, modern and scalable DLT systems into production.

We work with some of the world’s largest companies, to build scalable and flexible systems that streamline business operations. Digital Asset is a global company with offices in New York, London, Budapest, Zurich, Hong Kong, and Sydney.

Opportunity

You would be using Go & Kubernetes to build distributed systems for Digital Asset's distributed ledger technology.

Key Criteria

• Experience with Go in a production environment.
• 5+ years experience in software engineering using languages such as Go, Python, Haskell, Scala, C++, or similar.
• Experience with Kubernetes + Docker.
• Ability to create and maintain distributed system architecture.
• Knowledge of best practices within Go development
• Coming up with ideas on how to make things better, both for us and for our users.
• Following a collaborative approach that factors, embraces, and insists upon diverse perspectives. We are a smallish team, so everyone matters, and all opinions are valuable.

It is a huge bonus if you have previous experience developing smart contracts or developing blockchain technology. Knowledge of etcd is a big plus! https://etcd.io/