Senior Software Engineer, Protocol
Movement Labs builds Move-based blockchain infrastructure that bridges the security of the Move programming language with Ethereum's ecosystem and liquidity.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Movement Labs
Movement creates a network for developers to build applications using the Move programming language. By connecting with Ethereum, projects gain both security and performance benefits. Movement's platform supports a variety of applications including DeFi, gaming, and NFTs, with tools that make building safer and faster for developers of all experience levels.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Design, implement, and optimize core protocol components, including consensus mechanisms, state synchronization, replication, and mempool transaction propagation. Build fault-tolerant distributed systems in Rust, improve throughput, reliability, and latency, collaborate on protocol designs, resolve live distributed-systems issues, and contribute to testing, benchmarks, and safe releases.
Requirements
- Rust systems programming
- Distributed systems, including consensus, replication, networking, and asynchronous primitives
- Production infrastructure or protocol software
- Asynchronous concurrency
- Performance optimization
- Network protocols
- Peer-to-peer systems
- Decentralized-systems design tradeoffs
- Correctness, testing, and reliability
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and optimize core protocol components
- Build high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems in Rust
- Improve system throughput, reliability, and latency at scale
- Partner with research and product teams to iterate protocol designs
- Debug and resolve complex distributed-systems challenges in live environments
- Contribute to engineering standards for testing, benchmarks, and safe releases
Benefits
- Work on critical infrastructure powering a rapidly growing Move ecosystem
- Join a technically elite, community-centric team
- Competitive compensation with meaningful upside
- A culture that values technical excellence, clarity, and extreme ownership
- Opportunity to impact real-world adoption of decentralized financial systems