[Hiring] Senior Protocol Engineer @Allora Labs

Role Description

As a Senior Protocol Engineer, you’ll work on the core protocol layer that underpins Allora’s decentralized intelligence network. You’ll contribute to protocol design, implement performance-critical systems, and collaborate closely with researchers and engineers to turn novel ideas into production-ready infrastructure. This role is for engineers who enjoy deep technical challenges, ambiguous problem spaces, and building systems that must be correct, resilient, and performant from day one.

• Designing improvements and new features: improving upon its incentive mechanisms, optimizing the capital and computational efficiencies, and generalizing its application.
• Writing Go code that improves the codebase by implementing ideas designed as above.
• Preemptively assess all implications from every new decision made for the chain and every signal emitted by the chain, including economic, scalability, and usability concerns.
• Battling emergencies in the war room whenever key chain functionality has been impaired.
• Collaborating with other teams to communicate chain functionality to maximize the value they can in turn offer others.
• Participating in system architecture, protocol design, and decision-making to ensure security and minimize attack surface.
• Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the Cosmos and broader crypto ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in an adversarial, blockchain environment writing production-grade, protocol-level code including core chain source code or smart contracts.
• 4+ years writing production-grade, scalable Go.
• Expert understanding of common crypto-economic primitives.
• Previous experience at a crypto project that successfully navigated at least one full cycle while actively battling typical adversarial forces inherent to crypto.
• Deep problem-solving skills and comfort working in research-driven environments.

Requirements

• Experience building Cosmos SDK chains.
• Exposure to machine learning systems or data-intensive infrastructure.
• Is a notable presence on CT.
• Prior start-up or early-stage company experience.

Benefits

• You’ll work directly with senior leadership in a fast-moving, globally distributed company where clarity, trust, and execution matter.
• We value autonomy, ownership, and thoughtful communication.
• We are a remote-first, globally distributed team.
• We hire based on talent and potential, regardless of location, and are committed to building an inclusive and respectful workplace.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.