Engineering

Protocol Engineer

Background

Global settlement infrastructure is being rebuilt from the ground up. The rails that move value across borders today were designed decades ago — slow, opaque, and fragmented across jurisdictions.

Global Settlement is building the protocol layer that makes cross-border settlement instant, transparent, and programmable. We're not patching legacy systems. We're designing new primitives for how value moves between institutions, currencies, and chains.

That means building consensus mechanisms that can handle regulated asset settlement, designing interoperability layers that connect sovereign networks, and ensuring every transaction is cryptographically verifiable and compliant.

Role

  • Design and implement core consensus and settlement protocol components

  • Build cross-chain interoperability layers for sovereign digital currency networks

  • Develop cryptographic primitives for post-quantum secure transactions

  • Collaborate with standards bodies and central bank technical teams

  • Ability to commute to office in Miami preferred but not required

Qualifications

  • You have deep experience with distributed systems and consensus protocols

  • You're comfortable working at the intersection of cryptography and systems engineering

  • You have strong production experience in Go, Rust, or C++ — these are the languages we use for protocol-level work

  • You've built or contributed to blockchain protocol implementations

  • You're comfortable with ambiguity and laying the groundwork

  • Bonus: you understand cross-chain messaging or bridge architectures

If we interview you, you can expect the following process

  • Initial 30-45 minute conversation

  • A take-home assignment designed to be similar to on-the-job work

  • A 45 minute fit interview

  • An onsite super-day

  • We may speak with 1-2 references you provide

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