About Icebreaker
- Icebreaker’s mission is to promote user-owned data while connecting people and companies, directly and fairly. Learn more
- You'll be joining a team of customer-obsessed all-stars from Google and Coinbase (+ all having startup backgrounds) and will be shipping a beautiful and thoughtful product- the product of hundreds of interviews we've conducted over the last year- starting in week 1.
- You'll have the opportunity to build things right, from the ground up, meaningfully help hundreds of talented builders, and join us as we solve a problem that could change the way the internet works, all while having a ton of fun and growing tremendously in the process.
Responsibilities
- As Founding Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in accelerating Icebreaker’s Hypernetwork and trust protocol.
- You will report directly to our CTO, Neil, and work closely with Alan (Chief Architect and Backend Lead), Dan (CEO and Product Lead), and Jack (Design Lead).
- Wear many (engineering) hats: Design and develop everything from deployment pipelines and infrastructure-as-Code to attestation verification systems and hypernetwork protocol components. This role requires someone who thrives on variety and technical breadth, and is comfortable with DevOps, Back-end development, and web2 and web3 protocol work.
- Build scalable infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu while contributing to integrations with external verifiable data sources and protocols.
Qualifications
- Experience building, scaling, and securing distributed systems.
- At least 3 years of experience in this area at a company with strong engineering culture.
- Strong foundation in CI/CD systems and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/OpenTofu preferred), with curiosity and ability to dive into hypernetwork architectures, decentralized identity, and verifiable data.
- Our stack: Our app is powered by Go and Python microservices, OpenSearch for semantic queries, and extensive RDF modeling.
- Bonus: Experience with hypernetwork architectures, decentralized identity, hybrid or multichain systems, zero-knowledge proofs, graph databases, and verifiable data protocols are all strong pluses.