Bluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. As a backend dev, you'll be writing protocol and backend application code that will be a critical part of transforming social media.

Responsibilities:

Create APIs and SDK tools for an ecosystem of protocol developers
Maintain and operate existing Bluesky web services
Work closely across the app and infra teams to build and deploy user-facing features

You might be a good fit if you:

Have strong fundamental programming and software engineering skills
Have extensive experience with Typescript and Node (e.g. 2+ years)
Have built scalable and high-performance server-side applications
Have experience working with Postgres at scale
Have experience with gRPC/Protobufs
Have worked on distributed systems
Like working on small, fast-moving teams
Have read the Atproto docs and want to contribute

We're especially excited if you:

Have experience with Go
Have experience with Scylla/Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or other data stores
Have previous experience working on social sites
Have experience with cryptographic primitives such as public/private keys and merkle trees
Have experience with the IPLD or DID ecosystems

To learn more about us, check out:

bsky.social
atproto.com

We're a fully remote team, though working hours must overlap with CST (Central Standard Time). For full-time roles, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance.

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