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Senior Protocol Engineer

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Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Nov 10, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

To support the Rollup team, the full-time Senior Protocol Engineer will design, build, and maintain core protocol components for a Bitcoin-secured Layer 2 rollup, collaborating with a small team of senior engineers in a remote environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain core protocol components, including execution and consensus clients, sequencer, and block derivation
  • Work on the bridge and proof system, handling deposits, withdrawals, and cross-layer messages
  • Maintain a large open source codebase, ensuring safe changes for a live network and facilitating code evolution
Required Qualifications
  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in blockchain core or protocol development
  • Solid production experience in mainstream programming languages such as Go, Rust, or Java
  • Deep knowledge of blockchain internals and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)
  • Experience working effectively in large codebases not originally authored by the candidate
  • Strong autonomy and ownership in defining work and delivering results

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