Senior Blockchain Settlement Engineer

Global Settlement Network; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Settlement is hiring a Senior Blockchain Engineer to own the core settlement path of the GSX Chain, ensuring end-to-end transaction lifecycle and deterministic finality for institutional settlements. You will work hands-on in node infrastructure, consensus, and settlement protocols.

You will spend about 80% coding, 10% strategy, and 10% documentation, collaborating with protocol, ledger, and infra engineers to deliver testnet and mainnet milestones for regulated digital asset settlements.

Qualifications

• 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 node infrastructure, consensus algorithms, and distributed systems design.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Blockchain protocol

Node infrastructure

Rust/Go

Distributed systems

L1/L2 networks

Cryptography

Cloud & containers

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Global Settlement is hiring a Senior Blockchain Engineer to own the core settlement path of the GSX Chain, ensuring end-to-end transaction lifecycle and deterministic finality for institutional settlements. You will work hands-on in node infrastructure, consensus, and settlement protocols.

You will spend about 80% coding, 10% strategy, and 10% documentation, collaborating with protocol, ledger, and infra engineers to deliver testnet and mainnet milestones for regulated digital asset settlements.