Blockchain Protocol Engineer (Rust)

We’re looking for a skilled Blockchain Protocol Engineer with deep Rust expertise and strong experience working at the protocol level. You’ll focus primarily on our consensus layer-optimising and extending a high-throughput BFT system to support thousands of transactions per second

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and optimise a high-performance BFT consensus layer in Rust
• Collaborate with cryptography and infrastructure engineers to ensure secure and efficient protocol operations
• Work on low-level networking, state synchronisation, and validator management logic
• Benchmark and stress-test consensus mechanisms for scalability and reliability
• Contribute to open-source components and internal tooling

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

Reece Waldon