Sysadmin​/DevRel​/DevOps​/Technical Writing - Nix​/NixOS - Web​/Fully Remote

Position: Sysadmin/DevRel/DevOps/Technical Writing - Nix/NixOS - Web3 (Fully Remote) Project Overview: Litheum is at the forefront of blockchain innovation, creating a Layer 1 blockchain poised to revolutionize the industry. As a startup in its initial phases, we boast a small, dynamic and global team spanning across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. We are pioneering the next wave of Web3 applications, providing global-scale consensus in a straightforward, secure, and cost-effective manner. Our groundbreaking Proof of Performance consensus model sets us apart, encouraging network nodes—referred to as Runners—to contribute vital infrastructure such as networking, CPU, and memory. Our vision is ambitious: to facilitate 1 trillion transactions per day at just 10% of the infrastructure costs associated with leading blockchains like Bitcoin or Ethereum. We are proud to have some of the most advanced blockchain specialists in the world on our team, making Litheum a prime location for... learning and professional growth. We are building world-class tech and want to work with world-class people. This project is highly ambitious and you will be expected to grow along with this project. As an early team member you’ll be forming the foundation of the Litheum Team and helping define our team culture and best practices. Compensation: Litheum is committed to building a top-tier team and includes above-market salary USD $62,000 - $78,000 for anyone joining the team. In addition, a portion of the compensation will include token-based compensation similar to stock options. Role: Sysadmin/Devops/Technical Writing Responsibilities: As we approach testnet we will need support for deployment, documentation, dev relations, benchmarking, telemetry, and devops. This role will include both internal and outward facing development support. Required Knowledge/Skills: You should have very strong knowledge of Linux systems administration, software engineering best practices, vim or emacs, nginx, systemd, bash/zsh, awk or python or similar, etc. In addition, we are favoring to use NixOS/Nix for reproducible deployments rather than containerization. In addition, basic ability to update and work with HTML/CSS for basic tasks such as adding tracking code, fixing copy, and debugging very basic java script. We have a 3rd party web design team, but must handle deployment and one-off issues ourselves. Additionally, as Litheum is a platform, our primary concern is the DApp developers who will build DApps on Litheum. We will need to support them with documentation, bug triage, one-off communications, hackathons, etc. The ability to write and organize technical documentation and interface with our project management plan is critical. Required Tech NixOS Linux sysadmin (bash/zsh, nginx, systemd, etc) Git/Github HTML/CSS, Java script Bonus Tech/Skills Solidity, Web3 (can be trained on the job) Rust Next Steps for Litheum: We are on the cusp of exciting developments, including launching our brand, releasing our testnet, and an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) in the coming year. Technical Products and Upcoming Milestones: Litheum Core: Our biggest technical project is our reference implementation, Litheum Core, which is written in Rust. It is currently approaching feature-parity with Bitcoin (but scalable). At the moment we are integrating revm for smart contract support. Our testnet will roll out in 3 phases: Smart Contract support, Incentives, and Optimization (performance). During each phase we will need support for both the team and the community achieve the goals of each phase. Testnet Phase 1 will be focused on Dapp Development. We will need to maintain a stable testnet, document it’s usage, triage bug reports, support dapp developers with real-time comms, collect metrics and usage reports, and report all these things to our investors and community. Testnet Phase 2 will be focused on incentives and we will be more focused on metrics and benchmarking and expanding the number of people running nodes in the network. Testnet Phase 3 will be focused on performance and optimization, we will need to conduct large-scale test deployments and end-to-end tests to measure performance on a large-scale, global, benchmark network. In addition, we will continue…