Distributed Systems Engineer
Core
Building and scaling heterogeneous blockchain infrastructure for an AI-native execution layer, focusing on node specialization, consensus mechanisms, and distributed AI operations.
Role type
Senior IC distributed systems engineer (blockchain/AI infrastructure)
Builds
Ritual's Infernet network, a sovereign execution layer bridging on-chain smart contracts and off-chain AI model access
Domain
Blockchain infrastructure, distributed systems, AI-native compute
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Go, Rust, peer-to-peer networking, blockchain node architecture, consensus mechanisms, Linux system administration, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus, fault-tolerant system design
Preferred skills
AI/ML distributed computing, cryptography, open-source contributions
Technologies
Go, Rust, Kubernetes, Grafana, Prometheus
Responsibilities
Design and implement distributed systems components for a heterogeneous compute network; Develop and optimize peer-to-peer networking protocols for AI model execution and blockchain consensus; Build and maintain infrastructure for node monitoring, metrics collection, and system observability; Architect solutions for efficient state management and synchronization across specialized nodes; Create robust testing frameworks for distributed system components
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC