Senior Blockchain Engineer, Settlement — Global 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

• Company: Global Settlement Network
• Location: FL Miami US
• Sector: Blockchain
• Source: web3.career

Senior Blockchain Engineer to own the settlement path of an institutional L1: transaction lifecycle, finality, and recovery for stablecoin, CBDC, and tokenized-asset payments. Hands-on node infrastructure, consensus, and distributed systems. Rust or Go. 5+ years engineering, 3+ in blockchain protocol work.

About Global Settlement

Global Settlement (globalsettlement.com) is building institutional-grade blockchain settlement infrastructure that bridges traditional banking and digital markets through stablecoins, commodities, FX, and real-world assets (RWAs). Think the global settlement reach of SWIFT, rebuilt for real-time, regulated digital asset transactions.

The Role

You own the core settlement path of GSX Chain end to end: transaction lifecycle, finality guarantees, and the failure modes that only surface when money is stuck. This is blockchain infrastructure engineering on a payments chain. You will be in the node, consensus, and settlement-protocol code daily, making settlement provably correct under real institutional load.

Time split: roughly 80% coding, 10% strategy and coordination with the team, 10% documentation.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate the settlement path across the network, from transaction submission through deterministic finality.
• Harden consensus and recovery behavior under partial failure: network partitions, validator faults, stalled or replayed transactions, and reorg edge cases.
• Build the reconciliation and audit surface institutional clients verify settlement against.
• Own the incident path for chain-level settlement faults: detection, runbooks, root cause, and the fix.
• Instrument settlement latency, throughput, and correctness so the team sees problems before clients do.
• Contribute to cross-chain and bridging design where settlement spans networks, and write the RFCs and architecture decision records those changes build against.
• Work directly with protocol, ledger, banking-integration, and infrastructure engineers to ship testnet and mainnet milestones.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of software engineering, with 3+ years in blockchain protocol or node infrastructure. Production-grade blockchain experience beyond smart contracts is required.
• Deep hands-on experience with blockchain node infrastructure, consensus algorithms (BFT, PoS, PoA variants), and distributed systems design.
• Rust and/or Go experience, and the flexibility to switch stacks as the roadmap moves.
• Production experience with Ethereum, Hyperledger, Canton, or comparable L1/L2 networks. Full L1 node build-out and management of significant on-chain volume is the strongest signal.
• Command of cryptographic primitives, key management, and on-chain security practices.
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Startup work ethic and heavy use of productivity and coding tools to multiply your own output and the team’s. You can take a three-bullet brief and execute without hand-holding.

Nice to Have

• Stablecoin, CBDC, or RWA tokenization settlement systems.
• Cross-chain and interoperability protocols.
• Banking, neobank, payments, or regulated settlement background.
• Digital asset compliance and regulatory requirements.

Scope Note

This is a blockchain infrastructure role scoped to the settlement layer. The core focus is chain-level correctness, consensus behavior, node operations, and the settlement protocol. If your experience is solely in smart contract development or application backends without protocol-level work, this may not be the right fit.

Why Join Global Settlement

• Ground-floor opportunity to architect settlement infrastructure used by sovereign and enterprise clients.
• Direct impact on how digital assets move through the global financial system.
• Work at the intersection of blockchain infrastructure, traditional finance, and regulatory innovation.

Location and Eligibility

• This role is in person at our office in Miami, Florida.
• New hires may start remote with the expectation of relocating to Miami within 60 days of the start date.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Join us at Global Settlement and help build the future of digital payments on institutional-grade blockchain infrastructure.