Senior Blockchain Engineer — Institutional Settlement Network

The Bitcoin Street Journal; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Settlement Network seeks a Senior Blockchain Engineer to own the settlement path of an institutional L1, focusing on transaction lifecycle, finality, and recovery for stablecoins, CBDCs, and tokenized assets. You will work directly on node infrastructure, consensus, and settlement protocols, ensuring provable correctness under heavy institutional load.

The role involves ~80% coding, 10% strategy, and 10% documentation, with collaboration across protocol, ledger, banking integration, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with 3+ years in blockchain protocol or node infrastructure.
• Production-grade blockchain experience beyond smart contracts.
• Deep hands-on experience with node infrastructure, consensus (BFT/PoS/PoA), and distributed systems.
• Rust and/or Go experience, with flexibility to switch stacks.
• Experience with Ethereum, Hyperledger, Canton, or comparable L1/L2 networks.
• Knowledge of cryptographic primitives and on-chain security practices.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Startup work ethic and high-output; able to execute with minimal hand-holding.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the settlement path across the network, from submission to finality.
• Harden consensus and recovery under partial failure and edge cases.
• Build reconciliation and audit surfaces for institutional clients.
• Own the incident path for chain-level settlement faults with runbooks and fixes.
• Instrument latency, throughput, and correctness for early problem detection.
• Contribute to cross-chain and bridging design; draft RFCs and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with protocol, ledger, banking-integration, and infra teams to ship testnet/mainnet milestones.

Skills

Blockchain protocol

Node infrastructure

Rust/Go

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Docker/Kubernetes

Cryptography/on-chain security

Consensus algorithms

Tools

Ethereum

Hyperledger

Canton

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Global Settlement Network seeks a Senior Blockchain Engineer to own the settlement path of an institutional L1, focusing on transaction lifecycle, finality, and recovery for stablecoins, CBDCs, and tokenized assets. You will work directly on node infrastructure, consensus, and settlement protocols, ensuring provable correctness under heavy institutional load.

The role involves ~80% coding, 10% strategy, and 10% documentation, with collaboration across protocol, ledger, banking integration, and