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title: 'Distributed Systems Engineer at Ritual'
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# Distributed Systems Engineer at Ritual

- **Company:** Ritual
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-01-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ritual/jobs/4609616007

## Job description

## About Ritual

Ritual is building a sovereign, execution layer for AI, with our private testnet already live and running. The Ritual chain is the first blockchain custom-built to support AI-native operations, designed from the ground up to enable a new class of applications at the intersection of crypto and AI. Our first product, Infernet, is pioneering new ground as the first solution to enable developers to access AI models both on-chain via smart contracts and off-chain, demonstrating our commitment to bridging these transformative technologies.

## About the role

As a Distributed Systems Engineer at Ritual, you'll be instrumental in building and scaling our heterogeneous blockchain infrastructure. You'll work on innovative solutions for node specialization, consensus mechanisms, and distributed AI execution while ensuring the reliability and performance of our network.

- Design and implement distributed systems components for Ritual's heterogeneous compute network
- Develop and optimize peer-to-peer networking protocols optimized for AI model execution and blockchain consensus
- Build and maintain infrastructure for node monitoring, metrics collection, and system observability
- Architect solutions for efficient state management and synchronization across specialized nodes
- Collaborate with the research team to implement novel distributed systems algorithms
- Create robust testing frameworks for distributed system components

## About you

- Deep expertise in Go and/or Rust, with a track record of building production-grade distributed systems
- Strong understanding of peer-to-peer systems, networking, and messaging protocols
- Proven experience operating and developing blockchain nodes, with deep knowledge of node architecture and consensus mechanisms
- Experience optimizing high-throughput systems and implementing performance improvements at scale
- Advanced Linux expertise, with strong command line proficiency and system administration skills
- Proficiency with infrastructure orchestration tools like Kubernetes
- Mastery of monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus
- Experience designing and implementing fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed applications
- Strong background in system design, with the ability to make architectural decisions that balance performance, reliability, and scalability
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to debug complex distributed systems issues
- Ability to act quickly under high pressure scenarios and context switch at a high frequency
- A high level of end-to-end ownership and self-direction, with excellent communication skills
- Hungry, high-energy and ability to work within and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment

## Nice to have

- Familiarity with AI/ML systems and their distributed computing requirements
- Knowledge of cryptography and secure systems design
- Contributions to open-source distributed systems projects

## Why join us

- Join a passionate group of engineers, researchers, and operators on a mission to build the next generation of AI infrastructure
- Highly competitive compensation package, including annual discretionary bonus & optimized tax structure compared to the vast majority of web3 startups
- Top 1% of benefits across the web3 startup space
- 100% of premiums covered on highest quality healthcare
- Aggressive company 401k match
- Fully remote and/or hybrid, up to you!
- Participate in virtual and in-person events
- Much much more!

## About Ritual

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ritual is a social ordering app and online ordering platform that connects local restaurants with customers, offices, and building tenants, enabling convenient order‑ahead and pickup.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funded – Seed, Series B, Series C, and later rounds; total funding $137.3M)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with additional offices in the United States)
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Ray Reddy (CEO & Co‑founder) – additional co‑founders are not publicly named in the available sources.

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Food technology / Consumer services (online ordering, restaurant technology, employee meal perks)
- **Target customers**: B2B (companies offering meal perks to employees, building management) and B2C (individuals ordering takeout). Secondary customers are restaurants (especially independents) wanting a low‑commission ordering channel.
- **Mission / purpose**: “We’re for restaurants and the people who love them” – helping local businesses thrive online by providing affordable technology and fostering community around food.

## Products & Services
- **Ritual App (Consumer)**: A mobile app that lets users order ahead from nearby restaurants, skip the line, and pay. Includes a unique “social ordering” feature where co‑workers can add orders to a single pickup.
- **Ritual for Restaurants**: An online ordering system that gives independent restaurants a digital presence with lower commissions than major delivery platforms.
- **Ritual for Offices & Buildings**: Meal program and tenant rewards that make it easy for companies to offer daily lunch credits, connecting office workers with local eateries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$30M** (latest available); total funding **$137.3M** across 5 rounds.
- **Notable Investors**: Insight Partners (led Series B), Mantella Venture Partners, Mistral Venture Partners (seed), and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Small team of ~15 employees (down ~26% YoY, indicating a lean operation); acquired AllChecked.in in 2021; presence in North America and Australia; continues to serve both consumers and enterprise meal‑perk programs.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Restaurant‑first model**: Lower commission structure compared to incumbents like DoorDash, making it more attractive for independent restaurants.
- **Social ordering moat**: The ability for co‑workers to piggyback on one order creates a network effect within offices and buildings.
- **Hybrid‑work alignment**: Office meal credits and building partnerships directly address the “return‑to‑office” trend.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening relationships with office buildings and enterprise clients to drive recurring meal‑perk revenue.
- Continuing to offer affordable technology to independent restaurants to help them compete digitally.
- Maintaining a lean, low‑burn approach while refining its product for a post‑pandemic hybrid work environment.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include Ownership, Impact, Open‑mindedness, and Good Judgement. The team is small (15 people) so every hire has outsized impact.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid model – weekly credits are provided when in the Toronto office, and daily credits are available on office days.
- **Perks**: Ritual Credits for meals; emphasis on work‑life balance (rating 3.6/5) and culture (3.9/5) on LinkedIn.
- **Engineering culture**: Data‑driven decision making, modern tech stack (Kubernetes, Python, Google Cloud, Snowflake, React, etc.). Previous employees have gone on to top tech companies (Shopify, Amazon, Google, Wealthsimple).
- **Career growth**: Employees rate career opportunities at 3.6/5; leadership is hands‑on due to team size.

## Sources
1. [ritual.co](https://ritual.co/)
2. [ritual.co/careers](https://ritual.co/careers)
3. [ritual.co/about](https://ritual.co/about)
4. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ritual-co)

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