Senior Cross-Chain Protocol Engineer (Go/Rust/TS) - Remote

Chainlink Labs; New York (NY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainlink Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the CCIP Protocol team to design and maintain cross-chain services that ensure fast, fault-tolerant message execution across blockchain ecosystems. This role emphasizes security, reliability, and performance improvements within a remote-first organization.

You will contribute to architectural decisions, optimize RPC interactions, and help scale the protocol while maintaining a strong focus on resiliency and incident response tooling.

Qualifications

• Backend engineering experience using Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Experience delivering software within crypto projects or remote-first engineering organizations.
• Proven ability to design distributed systems with security and reliability as foundational engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the backend services that power secure, reliable cross-chain message execution across blockchain ecosystems.
• Improve protocol reliability for EVM chains by delivering resilient systems designed with security as a priority.
• Reduce cross-chain transaction latency through optimizations to RPC usage and protocol performance.
• Develop internal tooling for faster diagnosis and resolution of production issues during incident response.
• Contribute to protocol security initiatives that strengthen CCIP resilience under adversarial conditions.
• Participate in technical design discussions to improve architecture and long-term scalability.

Skills

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Job description

Chainlink Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the CCIP Protocol team to design and maintain cross-chain services that ensure fast, fault-tolerant message execution across blockchain ecosystems. This role emphasizes security, reliability, and performance improvements within a remote-first organization.

You will contribute to architectural decisions, optimize RPC interactions, and help scale the protocol while maintaining a strong focus on resiliency and incident response tooling.