Senior Systems Engineer

iftother is a company focused on revitalising civil society through its decentralized technology stack. The role involves designing and implementing liblogos, a modular plugin runtime for decentralized nodes, while collaborating with teams to build and test various modules.

Responsibilities:

• Help design and implement liblogos, which provides a modular plugin-based runtime for decentralized nodes and applications
• Optimize IPC performance
• Improve isolation (also in regards to efficiency), fault tolerance, independent scalability, and secure boundaries of modules to prevent cross-module vulnerabilities
• Collaborate with component teams to build and test modules like decentralised nodes

Requirements:

• Proficiency in systems programming languages including C, C++, Rust, and Nim
• Experience with plugin architectures, dynamic loading, and package managers for modular runtime systems
• Strong understanding of microkernel principles: minimal core, service isolation, fault tolerance, and extensibility without core modifications
• Experience with Linux namespaces and cgroups for process isolation, containerization techniques, and achieving microkernel-style separation in user-space environments
• Knowledge of IPC optimization, and low-level performance tuning in multi-process environments
• Experience in network programming
• Experience working for an open-source organization
• Knowledge of type theory and programming language foundations
• Experience with peer-to-peer technologies, blockchain, or cryptography