Remote Senior Protocol Engineer

Summary

The job is for a backend engineer at Saga, a protocol for provisioning application-specific blockchains. The role involves designing and implementing quality backend architectures using CosmosSDK/CometBFT technology stack. The team is looking for experienced engineers with a minimum of 7 years in backend architecture design and 5 years in Golang.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years experience in designing and implementing quality backend architectures
• Experience contributing to Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, Ethermint, and other modern consensus algorithms, ZK, base primitives, EVM, and Solidity used today in production
• Minimum 5 years of experience working with Golang
• Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills
• Experience with distributed systems architecture
• Understanding of blockchain systems like Ethereum or Cosmos
• Good knowledge of cryptographic primitives such as public/private keys, hash functions and Merkle trees
• Experience with GitHub or other developer collaborative tools

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and implement quality backend architectures, services, and tooling that leverage the CosmosSDK / CometBFT technology stack
• Develop high-quality, performant, modern, clean and readable code within tight deadlines
• Work collaboratively with the engineering, design, and product teams, contributing ideas that add value to our product roadmap and company goals
• Own the development and maintenance of the project from ideation to deployment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and containerization and different cloud providers like AWS or GCP
• Experience with performance optimizations
• Contribution to open-source projects

Benefits

• Work Remotely from anywhere in the world
• Work on exciting things. The world of crypto is our playground!
• Flexible working hours
• Flexible vacation policy
• Competitive Salary
• Stock options
• Full benefits* (Medical, Dental, Vision and 401k retirement plans. For US Employees only.)