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Senior Protocol Engineer (Golang)

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

New York (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

2+ years in blockchain protocol code, 4+ years writing scalable Go, Expert understanding of crypto-economic primitives, Experience with Cosmos SDK chains, Strong communication skills in English.

Key responsabilities:

Design upgrades to chain's incentive mechanisms and efficiency
Write and enhance Go codebase
Assess implications of all new decisions for the chain
Collaborate with teams to improve functionality<br>
Stay updated on crypto and Cosmos ecosystem developments

Serotonin Marketing & Advertising Startup https://serotonin.co/

11 - 50 Employees

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Job description

Our clients mission is to commoditize all forms of intelligence. Operating at the intelligence layer of the AI stack, they believe that building at the intersection of crypto and AI is the optimal path to achieving their mission.

As crypto-natives and ML experts with experience across leading Web3 projects, large finance companies, and large tech companies, the team combines deep blockchain knowledge with world-class technical capabilities. Backed by top crypto venture funds and angel investors who share the vision for the future of digital ownership.

We are looking for a protocol engineer to join the growing team responsible for both the design and development of upgrades to the chain that improve upon its incentive mechanisms, optimize its capital and computational efficiencies, and generalize its application. You will join a flat, collaborative environment that emphasizes solving hard problems well and with haste.

Key Responsibilities:

Designing improvements and new features: improving upon its incentive mechanisms, optimizing the capital and computational efficiencies, and generalizing its application.

Writing Go code that improves the codebase by implementing ideas designed as above

Preemptively assess all implications from every new decision made for the chain and every signal emitted by the chain. This includes but is not limited to economic, scalability, and usability concerns; anything that comprises an “end-to-end ownership” of the chain.

Battling emergencies in the war room whenever key chain functionality has been impaired

Collaborating with other teams to communicate chain functionality to maximize the value they can in turn offer others (e.g. to help inform how the indexing team should build new schemas for various applications)

Participating in system architecture, protocol design, and decision-making to ensure security and minimize attack surface

Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the Cosmos and broader crypto ecosystems, to always incorporate new best practices, techniques, and threat mitigations

Key Requirements:

2+ years in an adversarial, blockchain environment writing production-grade, protocol-level code including core chain source code or smart contracts

4+ years writing production-grade, scalable Go

Shape rotator; Can read and speak in math and abstractions

Expert understanding of common crypto-economic primitives

Previous experience at a crypto project that successfully navigated at least one, full cycle while actively battling typical adversarial forces inherent to crypto i.e. you worked at a noteworthy protocol

Proactive, English-fluent communicator

Fully immersed in, dedicated to, and bought-in to crypto

Preferred Requirements:

Experience building Cosmos SDK chains

Can do their own DevOps

Interest in Machine Learning

Is a notable presence on CT