P2P Search Software Engineer at Tether
Confirmed open
Build decentralised search using distributed indexes, DHTs and peer-to-peer networking for Tether’s Holepunch stack.
- Location
- Remote — United Kingdom / United Arab Emirates
- Employment
- fulltime_permanent
- Work arrangement
- remote
Role overview
The P2P Search team is building search without a central index, allowing peers to organise and find text, images and other content. The role combines distributed-search research with implementation in high-performance networking software. The source names remote locations in the United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates.
Responsibilities
- Build and evaluate decentralised indexing and search components.
- Develop concurrent P2P networking code and test protocol behaviour.
- Balance search relevance, ranking and retrieval performance for different data types.
- Work with Holepunch networking and storage components.
Qualifications
- Understanding of Kademlia DHT, distributed indexes, CRDTs or related research.
- P2P networking skills covering TCP/IP, multiplexing, NAT traversal and encryption.
- Search fundamentals such as recall, precision, ranking and inverted indexes.
- Experience evaluating protocols and writing high-performance concurrent code; familiarity with HyperDHT, Hyperswarm or Hypercore is relevant.
About Tether
Tether develops digital-token products, including USDT, alongside projects in peer-to-peer communications and AI. The employer describes a globally distributed remote team.
How to apply
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