Staff Software Engineer, Protocol

Drive development of core protocols powering the World ecosystem, including services supporting World ID, World Chain, and related systems. Contribute to design and implementation of existing software and engage in protocol-related efforts exploring blockchain scalability.

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

$225,000 - $275,000 per year

Location

United States, North America

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Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years building in production with Rust.

You have a T-shaped skillset and bring strong technical depth in areas like distributed systems, protocol design, blockchain, zero-knowledge cryptography or related topics and you're eager to lead in one or more of these domains.

You have extensive experience running services in production and are well-versed in distributed tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, and on-call operations. You've been through incident response and know what it’s like to be in the war room.

You value clean, well-tested code and understand the importance of engineering best practices in writing scalable, maintainable software.

Above all, you're excited to help shape the foundation of a privacy-preserving digital identity ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Drive the design and implementation of production ready services to support the World ecosystem

Write clean, efficient and maintainable code in Rust.

Own features from design to deployment. Provide thorough code review to help increase the maintainability of critical services.

Collaborate with teams across a variety of disciplines including cryptography, blockchain infrastructure, AI, and hardware to solve challenging problems and deliver robust, scalable solutions.

Take ownership of deployments, monitoring, and long-term maintenance of services in production.

Benefits

An open and collaborative office space in downtown SF

Unlimited PTO

Monthly Phone Reimbursement or a company device

Daily in-office meals

Top-tier medical, dental, vision insurance

401k + employer match program