Senior Cosmos Protocol Engineer

We are looking for senior, top of ecosystem engineers to augment and/or lead our growing protocol team.

Required experience

• Software development, 8+ years
• Blockchain or similar distributed systems design/development, 5+ years
• Cosmos SDK development, 3+ years
• Golang, 3+ years
• IBC protocol/app design

Recommended experience

• Rust, 3+ years
• Typescript, 3+ years
• Hyperlane warp routes

Day to day work and responsibilities

• Optimization and functional expansion of high use modules such as x/auth, x/authz, x/feegrant
• Custom cross-chain integrations with IBC or non-IBC blockchains
• Integration of protocol level ZK proving systems for consumer dapp integration
• Expand testing automation and internal development tooling
• Coordinate and collaborate with the best teams in the web2 and web3 space
• Research and evaluation of cutting edge protocol concepts, to maintain the forward facing technological sustainability of the platform

Why work at Burnt Labs / XION

• Consumer minded team, building for massive audiences and user-bases
• Direct product ownership and impact
• Autonomy and independence
• Competitive compensation

Responsibilities

• Optimization and functional expansion of high use modules such as x/auth, x/authz, x/feegrant
• Custom cross-chain integrations with IBC or non-IBC blockchains
• Integration of protocol level ZK proving systems for consumer dapp integration
• Expand testing automation and internal development tooling
• Coordinate and collaborate with the best teams in the web2 and web3 space
• Research and evaluation of cutting edge protocol concepts, to maintain the forward facing technological sustainability of the platform
• Consumer minded team, building for massive audiences and user-bases
• Direct product ownership and impact
• Autonomy and independence
• Competitive compensation

Requirements

• Cosmos SDK (advanced)
• Go (advanced)
• Rust (intermediate)
• TypeScript (intermediate)
• Blockchain development (advanced)
• 8+ years of commercial experience
• Formal education: nice to have
• English (advanced)

Tech stack

• Cosmos SDK
• Cosmos
• Blockchain
• Rust
• TypeScript
• Go
• Blockchain development
• Cryptocurrency