Blockchain/Ethereum Core Engineer

Live Planet's solutions include:

• The Live Planet VR System: the only end-to-end capture, distribution, and monetization system for immersive video. The Live Planet System makes it easy, practical, and affordable to create and deliver stereoscopic VR and 360° video, whether live or recorded, allowing creators to focus on their productions and applications. (www.LivePlanet.net)
• The VideoCoin Network: video infrastructure for a blockchain-enabled Internet. The VideoCoin Network is a decentralized video encoding, storage, and content distribution system that turns all cloud-based video services into an efficient algorithmic market running on a new blockchain with a native protocol token, the VideoCoin. (www.VideoCoin.io)

Position Overview

• Work with CTO and talented engineers to build a native VideoCoin blockchain based on Ethereum
• Research and develop consensus mechanisms
• Work on the protocol layer to define communications between nodes in the VideoCoin Network
• Extend and use libp2p, levelDB, Whisper, geth and other bleeding edge open source technology to build low latency, high throughput compute on the blockchain

Candidate Profile

• B.S. in Computer Science or a related field
• Hands-on development experience in C/C++/GoLang/Solidity
• 5+ years in systems software development
• 1+ years of development with Blockchain
• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Proficient in the Ethereum Protocol, used geth or eth client
• Knows how to run ETH network full stack, including setting up PoA and PoS Networks
• Understands different PoS networks and merits of each of them like Cosmos, Stellar and EOS
• Understanding of Video a plus
• Experience working in a dynamic startup environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Outstanding attention to detail.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area or remote.

Company Overview

Live Planet, Inc. develops infrastructural technologies to enable next-generation video applications. Live Planet was founded by serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor, who to date has founded or co-founded technology companies that have created over $100 billion in cumulative value, including: CNET, Uphold, Salesforce, Google Voice, OpenDNS, and Vignette.