**About Protocol Labs**\n\nProtocol Labs drives breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward. Protocol Labs is a product-development lab, but behind the protocols and tools we build, behind the research and implementations, are passionate people, teammates and community members. Most teams in the Protocol Labs Network are fully distributed and work remotely around the world. Engineers, researchers, and operators work in the open to improve the internet — humanity's most important technology — as we explore new advances at the intersection of many exciting fields (crypto, networks, distributed systems) and cultures (startups, research, open source, distributed work).\n\n \n **Define and build elegant software for tomorrow's web.**\n\nWe are hiring Software Engineers to join the Web3 development community through PL Launchpad, our new cohort-based web3 onboarding program. Many developers are excited about the decentralized web and blockchains, but are looking for support, guidance, and expert training as they get started with their new web3 careers. We are building the on-ramp to web3, helping web2 experts upgrade & apply their existing expertise. \n\nStarting with a curated 6-week Web3 onboarding experience, you’ll learn the fundamentals of protocols like IPFS, Filecoin, IPLD, and libp2p through hands-on labs, training, and projects, while forming relationships across the Protocol Labs Network and team-matching to a web3 role at the intersection of your skills & interests.\n\n**Launchpad Software Engineering in the Protocol Labs Network**\n\nLaunchpad is our program to accelerate the transition to web3 by providing a bridge to onboard new developers from the web2 community, equipping them with the skills, tools & connections to fluidly impact projects across the Protocol Labs Network. Starting with learning the fundamentals of IPFS, libp2p, Filecoin and other related projects, we will accelerate your ability to lay the foundation for a more resilient, more secure, distributed version of the web. Our community values rigorous engineering with a passion & curiosity to apply your skills in new platforms & environments. We strike a balance between pragmatism (put it on a ship ⛴), deeply informed protocol design, and strict application of strong engineering principles. All of this happens in a community defined by curiosity, passion, and a love for open source.\n\n**As a Software Engineer in the Protocol Labs Network, you will:**\n\n- Build the next generation of peer-to-peer software, working on projects like libp2p, IPFS and Filecoin, or one of the hundreds of projects built on these foundations\n- Participate in the design and implementation of performant and resilient distributed applications\n- Develop solutions to hard problems, such as low-trust distributed systems and forming new products\n- Work alongside a cross-functional team including engineering, design, community, product, and business\n- Build a personal project that highlights your interests and learnings from Launchpad\n- Land multiple OSS contributions to core protocols and tooling, guided by a senior mentor within the PL Network\n- Receive personal 1:1 mentorship from the experts behind the PL Protocols\n- Build relationships with founders, leaders & engineers from across the Web3 community\n- Team-match with a project aligned with your unique skills, interests, and passions \n\n**You may be a fit for this role if you have:**\n\n- BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field or equivalent practical experience\n- 3+ years of industry experience as a Software Engineer (or equivalent practical experience)\n- A solid understanding of CS principles and how to apply them in software design\n- Experience designing and shipping web2 projects with significant complexity.\n- Depth in one of the following domains: distributed systems, networking, storage, production engineering/benchmarking, productivity tools, or DevOps\n- Proven track record of independently driving projects in a fast-paced environment\n- Excellent communication skills on both technical and non-technical issues\n- A keen awareness of teamwork, process, and patterns of successful collaboration\n- Excellent written and verbal communication skills\n\n**Bonus Points:**\n\n- Experience leading open source projects, and/or guiding their communities \n- Experience with Javascript, Go or Rust\n- Security engineering and/or cryptography principles and practices\n- Large-scale systems (especially networking, performance, storage, or reliability engineering)\n- Experience building with decentralized building blocks such as DHTs, consensus protocols, smart contracts, blockchain, p2p networking, etc.\n\n**What is PLN Launchpad?**\n\nPLN Launchpad is a hiring program designed to accelerate the development of the Web3 by hiring software engineers from diverse development backgrounds & teams into a six-week, full-time onboarding program designed to train, develop, and team-match technical talent at scale with opportunities in Web3 across the Protocol Labs Network (PLN).\n\nLaunchpad aims to help accelerate non-Web3 talent into this new frontier and help web3-savvy contributors quickly ramp up their InterPlanetary web3 knowledge, grow strong PL Network community bonds, and find their best-fit role in the PL Network. \n\nRead more about Launchpad here:\n\nhttps://protocol.ai/blog/announcing-pl-launchpad/\n\n**What’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?**\n \nProtocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.\n \nAs a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.\n \nWe have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.\nIf you’re passionate about the future of computing and a more democratized internet, we want to talk to you. \n\nPlease mention the word **ADMIRINGLY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjQ=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $130,000 — $180,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

Protocol Labs is a research and development laboratory that has built and scaled multiple projects that have made great contributions to the web3 ecosystem. Our team is fully remote and distributed across the world, and their operations have been facilitated by a set of shared Enablement resources that allow project teams to focus on core product and engineering work. To accelerate the growth of our broader ecosystem, we’ve created a new team—PL Services—to provide services and capabilities that our projects and the web3 community can leverage, including marketing, operations, IT, and more. \n\nAs a lead events producer for PL Services, you will play a critical role in organizing in-person and virtual events for Labbers to collaborate and build relationships. You’ll start by understanding the needs of teams within the Protocol Labs network, then pilot and scale services that meet those requirements. This will include events small and large, virtual and in-person, and self-serve or full service.\n\nWhat’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?\nProtocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.\n\nAs a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.\n\nWe have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Executive and Executive jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote - PL Services

Protocol Labs is seeking a dynamic Operations Manager with a proven track record of managing day-to-day organizational operations, preferably in a startup or tech-focused environment. This individual will collaborate directly with multiple teams and individuals across Protocol Labs to enable efficient and scalable operations across an array of functions. \n\nWhat’s it like to work at Protocol Labs?\nProtocol Labs mission is to improve humanity’s most important technology, the Internet. We build protocols, systems, and tools to improve how it works. Today, we are focused on how we store, locate, and move information. Our projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and more.\n\nAs a distributed team, we hire anywhere in the world, and at various levels of experience (entry, senior, staff). We look for people with unique perspectives and diverse backgrounds.\n\nWe have a great benefits package, including parental leave, contributions to your retirement, competitive pay, and unlimited time off. For U.S.-based employees, we also provide platinum-level health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Full Stack, Executive and Ops jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote

We seek talented researchers and engineers who have a fiery passion to build foundational infrastructure for the fabric of human knowledge, who desire work on the bleeding edge of P2P and Networking technologies and who understand the value of creating resilient, open, and equal access to the Internet and Web.\nResearch Engineering at Protocol Labs\nWe are hiring a Research Engineer to pursue our vision in building and expanding our Resilient Networks Lab (see below). The Engineer is expected to support work related to: surveying academic literature, implementing and evaluating (mainly in simulation environments, but possibly also proof-of-concept testbeds) protocol designs nurtured within the lab, and also identifying problems with existing designs in the operational networks.We believe in an Open Source and Open Collaboration approach to creation.  \nAs a Research Engineer at Protocol Labs:\n\n\n* Study, design and propose improvements to the IPFS, libp2p, Filecoin and other Networking protocols.\n* Validate design proposals through simulation experiments and/or proof-of-concept distributed, large-scale testbed implementations.\n* Work with the development team on turning the research into implementations.\n* Consider security and privacy issues when designing networking protocols.\n* Contribute and possibly lead protocol design and specification.\n* Apply the engineering rigor, craftsmanship and structuredness to Research, improving its predictability, clarity on progress and enhanced collaboration.\n* Collaborate with many other research labs and individual researchers on the field.\n* Attend and represent the projects and the research at Academic & Developer Conferences.\n* Work in a fully asynchronous and remote team.\n* Organize and attend high-intensity research and protocol design workshops.\n\n\nResilient Networks Lab\n\nAt Protocol Labs we’ve created a new Research Lab focused on Resilient Networks (ResNetLab). This Lab is designed to support engineering teams with “problems-to-be” by finding solutions before the problems hit the operational systems and Networks. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Francisco