Remote P2P Search Engineer – Decentralized Networking & DHT

Tether.io; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Tether is hiring software engineers for its P2P Search team to build a next-gen, decentralized search stack that operates without servers. You will contribute to Kademlia-based and other distributed techniques, focusing on scalable, reliable networking across a peer-to-peer fabric.

The role emphasizes a bias toward practical building with a strong research orientation, aiming to deliver a fast, secure, and resilient search platform for a global audience.

Qualifications

• Experience with P2P networking and decentralized search stacks.
• Strong interest in research with a bias toward building.
• Familiarity with distributed indexing and CRDTs.
• Ability to write high-performance, concurrent networking code.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building a next-gen, decentralized search stack for P2P.
• Research, design, and implement components for a scalable search engine.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship robust networking code.

Skills

P2P networking

Distributed systems

High-performance networking

Concurrent programming

Research orientation

Tools

Kademlia DHT

Hyperdht

Hyperswarm

Hypercore

Hyperbee

Hyperdrive

UDX-native

Job description

Tether is hiring software engineers for its P2P Search team to build a next-gen, decentralized search stack that operates without servers. You will contribute to Kademlia-based and other distributed techniques, focusing on scalable, reliable networking across a peer-to-peer fabric.

The role emphasizes a bias toward practical building with a strong research orientation, aiming to deliver a fast, secure, and resilient search platform for a global audience.