Senior Protocol Engineer (Fully Remote)

RootstockLabs; United States; Remoto; USD 150.000 - 230.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Remote work from Europe and LATAM

Paid vacation

Paid sick leave

Descrizione del lavoro

RootstockLabs is hiring a software engineer to design and maintain core protocol components for a Bitcoin-based financial infrastructure. You will work on execution/consensus clients, a sequencer, and block derivation, enabling robust on-chain capital markets.

This role offers 100% remote work from Europe and Latin America with paid vacation and sick leave, plus a competitive compensation package and strong focus on open source contributions.

Competenze

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 2 years in blockchain core or protocol development.
• Solid production experience in mainstream languages like Go, Rust or Java.
• Deep knowledge of blockchain internals and the EVM.

Mansioni

• Design, build and maintain core protocol components: execution and consensus clients, sequencer, block derivation and batch submission.
• Work on the bridge and proof system, including deposits, withdrawals, cross-layer messages and state validation.
• Maintain a large open source codebase, review code, write design docs and RFCs.

Conoscenze

Software engineering

Go

Rust

Java

Blockchain internals

Strumenti

EVM

Distributed systems

Descrizione del lavoro

• Design, build and maintain core protocol components: execution and consensus clients, sequencer, block derivation and batch submission.
• Work on the bridge and proof system, including deposits, withdrawals, cross-layer messages and state validation.
• Maintain a large open source codebase, review code, write design docs and RFCs.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering, with at least 2 years in blockchain core or protocol development.
• Solid production experience in mainstream languages like Go, Rust or Java.
• Deep knowledge of blockchain internals and the EVM.
• Competitive compensation package with unique benefits.
• 100% remote work from Europe and Latin America.
• Work-life balance with paid vacation and sick leave days.

RootstockLabs is a key contributor to Rootstock, Bitcoin's financial infrastructure for lending, yield, and onchain capital markets. The company builds and commercializes institutional infrastructure that turns Bitcoin into productive capital, working with leading custodians and asset managers. Rootstock is secured by over 80% of Bitcoin's hash power and runs with 100% uptime since 2018.