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# Protocol Engineer

- **Company:** Injective Labs
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Data Structures, Digital Signature, Financial Software, Interoperability, Open Source Technology, Blockchain, Requirements Management, Parallel Computation, Ethereum, Solidity, Api Design, Golang
- **Published:** October 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/protocol-engineer--306ec33c-0e5b-460e-9a6b-aa9dd00a693a

## About the Role

Interoperability, Finance Software, Cryptography, Search Technology, Requirements Management, Performance Management, Organizational Skills, Testing, Blockchain, Open Source, * Minimum of 3 years' experience as a Blockchain Engineer

 * Prior experience working in trading or in an exchange
 * Worked on at least two production Golang codebases that are reasonably large and performant
 * Strong knowledge of Go idioms, libraries and parallel processing
 * Strong knowledge of blockchain, DeFi & DEX concepts, consensus mechanisms, CosmWasm contract platform
 * Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals such as data structures and API design
 * Ability to communicate technical concepts with other technical and non-technical team members, * Experience with Cosmos-SDK/Tendermint
 * Experience with cryptography libraries including digital signature, hash algorithms used by Ethereum, Cosmos
 * Experience with key-value databases especially ones used by cosmos-sdk
 * Experience with Ethereum/Solidity (bonus points if you've worked with Layer-2 before!)
 * Knowledge of financial instruments and markets

## Description

We are looking for an accomplished Protocol Engineer who is able to fit into an existing highly-skilled global dev team. Your role is to work closely with the protocol team to brainstorm, write specs, implement and test chain features for our Injective DeFi modules. You also have the freedom to detect and take ownership to improve chain performance and scalability via kvstore optimization, processing logic and order matching engine, * Build, maintain and test core components on our Cosmos-SDK protocol including our decentralized orderbook, trade execution coordinator, order matcher, and Layer-2 execution environment

 * Develop and optimize core components of the Injective blockchain (consensus, state management, financial infrastructure and applications)
 * Write open-source Golang clients that allow users to interact directly with our protocol and smart contracts
 * Contribute to the research and development of new blockchain features and technologies
 * Work closely with cross-functional teams, including front-end developers, back-end developers, and quality assurance engineers, to deliver comprehensive blockchain solutions
 * Collaborate with external partners and open-source communities to enhance our blockchain ecosystem