Senior Software Engineer, Protocol

About Move Industries
Move Industries is building the People’s Chain, a Move-based Layer 1 blockchain, and a diverse ecosystem that empowers talented builders to create the future of finance, infrastructure, and real-world value on chain. As a core contributor to the Movement Network, we combine deep protocol engineering with open community governance, returning blockchain to its roots by giving financial power, access and opportunity back to the people. Our Mission
Our mission is to fuel the next generation of secure, expressive, and high-performance blockchain applications through the Move programming language and scalable distributed systems.

You will help unlock massive throughput, low latency, and resilience across consensus, data availability, and privacy - the invisible rails that make an open and decentralized future possible.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Protocol to join our core systems team and architect the backbone of the Movement Network. In this role, you will drive development of latency-critical, correctness-sensitive components such as consensus, state synchronization, and mempool systems. You’ll use Rust for distributed systems that operate under real-world load, and you’ll help shape foundational protocol design alongside other senior engineers.

What You’ll Do
Design, implement, and optimize core protocol components, including:
Consensus mechanisms

State synchronization and replication

Mempool and transaction propagation

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

What We’re Looking For
Deep experience as a Rust generalist with a focus on systems programming

Strong background in distributed systems (consensus, replication, networking, async primitives) and design tradeoffs

Experience building or operating production infrastructure or protocol software

Excellent understanding of:
Asynchronous concurrency and performance optimization

Network protocols and peer-to-peer systems

Design tradeoffs in decentralized systems

Rigorous approach to correctness, testing, and reliability

Preferred Qualifications
Experience with blockchain protocols or consensus engines

Exposure to EVM or MoveVM ecosystem

Background in high-throughput, low-latency systems

Familiarity with cryptographic primitives used in consensus/security

Prior work in decentralized or open-source protocol communities

Why Join Us
Work on critical infrastructure powering a rapidly growing Move ecosystem

Join a community-centric, technically elite team of former Facebook, Google, Uber, Apple enginers

Competitive compensation with meaningful upside

A culture that values technical excellence, clarity, and extreme ownership

Opportunity to impact real-world adoption of decentralized financial system

Our Engineering Culture
Make it live. Then make it better.

Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS)

Extreme ownership