Remote Senior Backend Engineer, Cross-Chain DeFi

The Bitcoin Street Journal

New York, Northern (NY, KY)

Hybrid

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

Chainlink Labs in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain services that coordinate fast, fault-tolerant cross-chain transactions under adversarial conditions. You will strengthen the reliability, security, and operational resilience of the CCIP protocol while helping accelerate protocol performance and long-term ecosystem growth.

Your impact includes building backend services, improving RPC usage, reducing latency, and developing internal tooling for incident

Qualifications

  • Backend engineering experience using Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
  • Experience delivering crypto projects or remote-first teams.
  • Design distributed systems with security and reliability at the core.
  • Production-grade backend systems with resiliency.

Responsibilities

  • Build and evolve backend services powering cross-chain message execution.
  • Improve protocol reliability for EVM chains with secure systems.
  • Reduce cross-chain latency via RPC and performance optimizations.
  • Develop tooling for faster incident diagnosis and resolution.
  • Contribute to protocol security initiatives for adversarial resilience.
  • Participate in architecture and long-term scalability discussions.

Skills

Go/Rust/TS
Backend engineering
Distributed systems
Security

Tools

Go
Rust
TypeScript
Cloud infrastructure
Containerization

Job description

Chainlink Labs in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain services that coordinate fast, fault-tolerant cross-chain transactions under adversarial conditions. You will strengthen the reliability, security, and operational resilience of the CCIP protocol while helping accelerate protocol performance and long-term ecosystem growth.

Your impact includes building backend services, improving RPC usage, reducing latency, and developing internal tooling for incident

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