Senior Software Engineer (CCIP)
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Description
- The CCIP Protocol team is hiring a Software Engineer to design and maintain the services that coordinate fast, fault-tolerant cross-chain transactions under adversarial conditions
- This role strengthens the reliability, security, and operational resilience of the core CCIP protocol while helping accelerate protocol performance and long-term ecosystem growth
- 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 primary consideration
- Reduce cross-chain transaction latency through optimizations to RPC usage and protocol performance
- Develop internal tooling that enables faster diagnosis and resolution of production issues during incident response
- Contribute to protocol security initiatives that strengthen the resilience of CCIP under adversarial conditions
- Participate in technical design discussions that improve the architecture and long-term scalability of the protocol
- Demonstrated backend engineering experience using Go, Rust, or TypeScript
- Experience collaborating in engineering design discussions and contributing to technical decision-making
- Built or maintained backend systems that operate in production with a focus on resiliency and operational excellence
- 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
- Demonstrated knowledge of DeFi protocols and the broader decentralized application ecosystem
- Experience deploying or operating services using cloud infrastructure and tooling such as containerized workloads and public cloud platforms
- Hands-on experience using blockchain bridges or interoperability protocols
- Understanding of bridge-specific security risks and common attack vectors
- Familiarity with non-EVM ecosystems such as Solana, Aptos, Canton, or similar blockchain platforms