# Senior Protocol Engineer

**Company:** [Aleo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/aleo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Distributed Systems, Blockchain, Consensus Algorithms, Networking, Low-Level Programming, Memory-Mapped Databases, System Programming
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> Senior Protocol Engineer building privacy-preserving zero-knowledge protocols and distributed systems using Rust. Requires 5+ years engineering experience and 2-3+ years professional Rust experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Engineer distributed system components such as consensus logic, memory-mapped databases, networking stacks, and synchronization logic to be performant, safe, and correct.
- Support infrastructure engineers in maintaining monitoring and alerting stack to ensure high uptime and streamlined debugging.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to respond promptly to production incidents and outages.
- Make protocols accessible to product teams by wrapping key functionality in clean interfaces and APIs.

## Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- 2-3+ years of professional Rust experience
- Strong foundation in blockchain concepts and ideally experience contributing to a blockchain project
- Low-level system programming and/or distributed systems design experience

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