Wells Fargo
Lead Protocol Engineer (Go / Cryptography)
$159K–$305K
CONCORD, CA +3 · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- CONCORD, CA
COLUMBUS, OH
ISELIN, NJ
NEW YORK, NY - Experience
- 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering; 3+ years of backend or systems programming; 6+ months of ECC; 1+ year of BFT consensus algorithms, P2P networking, and state replication.
About the job
Architect and build a privacy-preserving blockchain settlement engine for an institutional digital asset platform, combining distributed systems, cryptography, and regulatory auditing.
What you'll do
- Develop a custom blockchain application and tailor consensus extensions for an on-chain MPC mixing network.
- Implement and optimize privacy-preserving cryptographic primitives and a state machine for encrypted balances.
- Build secure off-chain query and view-key mechanisms for permissioned regulatory auditing.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of Specialty Software Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through work experience, training, military experience, or education.
- 3+ years of backend or systems programming experience, with expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang).
- 6+ months of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) experience.
- 1+ year of experience with BFT consensus algorithms, P2P networking, and state replication; reliable, distributed systems experience.
Nice to have
- Deep experience with Cosmos SDK and CometBFT, including custom modules or consensus logic.
- Experience with MPC or Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS), Bulletproofs or Sigma protocols, or familiarity with Ristretto255 or gnark-crypto.
Pay
USD 159,000.00 - USD 305,000.00 (base salary)
Tools
Go, Cosmos SDK, CometBFT (Tendermint), Pedersen Commitments, Bulletproofs (Range Proofs), ABCI++, MPC, Ristretto255
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