VP, Protocol / Backend Engineer
Core
Designing and maintaining high-throughput distributed blockchain services and validator infrastructure for institutional digital assets and AI compute.
Role type
VP, Protocol / Backend Engineer
Builds
Resilient distributed services for blockchain participation, validator pipelines, and node infrastructure.
Domain
Blockchain / Web3 / Distributed Systems / Finance
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Rust, systems programming, blockchain consensus (PoS), observability, performance engineering, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), virtualization, security (key management/HSM/MPC), distributed systems debugging.
Preferred skills
Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), MEV searchers/bundles, Jito ecosystem, distributed consensus systems.
Technologies
Rust, Go, C/C++, Java, .Net, Python, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, LogDNA, AWS, Azure, GCP, VMWare, KVM, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Chainlink, Solana, ETH.
Responsibilities
Engineer resilient distributed services handling high-throughput transaction flow and real-time coordination; Dive into Rust + systems programming for low-latency backend work; Integrate with validator or node pipelines and reason about consensus and block production; Identify and implement solutions for process, automation, or tooling improvements; Develop forward-looking views on domain trends to inform leadership strategy; Continuously research emerging Web3/Blockchain trends; Debug complex distributed blockchains to improve participation; Participate in on-call rotations for service reliability.
Seniority
VP, strategy & hands-on IC