Senior Blockchain, Distributed Infrastructure & Agentic AI Engineer — Autheo | Layer 0 Mesh, Layer 1, Smart Contracts & Agentic AI

Launch Legends • Cheyenne, WY

11h • Remote

About The Position

This is a part-time, equity- and token-based cofounder opportunity with Launch Legends and Autheo. The position is for a Senior or Principal Software Engineer and reports to the Chief Engineering & AI Officer. The role requires at least 20 hours per week and offers no cash salary. Compensation includes equity in Launch Legends, Autheo, and the WFO Creator Network, plus token allocations in the Autheo blockchain.

The engineer will help architect, develop, secure, and scale Autheo’s Layer 0 Mesh, Layer 1 blockchain, decentralized infrastructure services, and agentic AI capabilities. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong programming skills, distributed-systems expertise, production engineering experience, and the ability to solve complex architectural problems. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in at least one core engineering domain and collaborate across the broader technology stack.

The platform combines a Layer 0 Mesh for decentralized infrastructure coordination, a Layer 1 blockchain for trust and settlement, smart contracts for programmable business logic, agentic AI for infrastructure operations, and DevHub and Neighborhood Marketplace services. Together these components support BaaS, IaaS, and SaaS offerings.

The role spans distributed networking and infrastructure coordination; Layer 1 protocol and node engineering; smart contract development; AI agents and intelligent automation; cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure engineering; and security, reliability, and protocol integrity. Responsibilities include building secure and resilient production systems, integrating blockchain, infrastructure, and AI services, and contributing to architecture, testing, observability, incident response, and engineering standards.

The position is remote and involves working directly with engineering leadership in a fast-moving environment with evolving architecture and requirements.

Requirements

• Strong production experience with Rust and/or Python.
• Proficiency in Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Solidity, depending on specialization.
• Ability to develop, review, debug, and optimize complex backend or protocol-level software; applicants are asked to include a link to code they wrote.
• Experience with distributed architecture, concurrency, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, and networking.
• Experience with APIs, RPC, gRPC, WebSockets, event-driven systems, data consistency, consensus concepts, and resilience.
• Production experience with blockchain applications, protocol components, or blockchain-integrated backend services.
• Knowledge of blockchain architecture, transactions, smart contracts, cryptography, and network operations.
• Experience with EVM-compatible ecosystems, Cosmos SDK, IBC, or equivalent.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services, infrastructure automation, monitoring, logging, CI/CD, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• For AI-focused candidates: practical experience building Python LLM applications, agents, tool integrations, or AI automation, and understanding of orchestration, model integration, and secure tool execution.
• Ability to prioritize security, correctness, and reliability; write secure, maintainable, well-tested, documented code; demonstrate ownership and technical judgment; and collaborate across teams.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant ownership of production systems.
• Experience designing or operating decentralized infrastructure networks.
• Deep knowledge of Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC, or EVM internals.
• Production Rust asynchronous programming experience with Tokio.
• Go-based blockchain modules and protocol development experience.
• Experience with WebAssembly, zero-knowledge technologies, cryptographic verification, or formal methods.
• Experience with distributed GPU infrastructure, edge computing, or decentralized resource marketplaces.
• Experience building production AI agents using Python, LangGraph, MCP, or similar tools.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, NATS, or distributed messaging architectures.
• Experience with developer platforms, API gateways, SDKs, or BaaS/SaaS products.
• Experience with security audits, blockchain incident response, or protocol remediation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop decentralized peer-to-peer networking and infrastructure coordination services.
• Build node discovery, registration, identity, authentication, and service discovery capabilities.
• Develop distributed compute scheduling, workload placement, resource allocation, and service orchestration.
• Engineer resilient networking, node-to-node messaging, fault-tolerant services, monitoring, health verification, telemetry, and automated recovery.
• Support cloud, bare-metal, GPU, edge, and independently operated infrastructure, and develop secure APIs and protocols connecting Layer 0 services with Layer 1 and DevHub.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure, protocol services, and node operations.
• Build blockchain modules and services for transaction processing, consensus integrations, state management, execution, interoperability, and cross-chain communication.
• Support validator infrastructure, RPC services, chain upgrades, migration strategies, network recovery, performance optimization, and production reliability.
• Design, develop, test, and deploy smart contracts for marketplace payments, token utility, staking, service agreements, resource usage, and settlement.
• Implement smart contract upgrade patterns, access controls, role management, authorization, automated testing, fuzzing, security validation, and deployment pipelines.
• Integrate smart contracts with Layer 0 services, Layer 1 execution, DevHub, and customer-facing applications.
• Develop AI agents and agentic workflows to support distributed infrastructure management, orchestration, monitoring, incident analysis, and optimization.
• Integrate LLMs, tool-calling architectures, function execution, and agent communication protocols with blockchain data, smart contracts, infrastructure, and APIs.
• Implement secure agent execution with authorization controls, human-approval boundaries, observability, and audit trails.
• Design and operate scalable infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, and bare-metal environments.
• Build containerized services and automation using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD; implement observability, deployment, configuration, secrets management, and infrastructure security.
• Optimize compute, networking, storage, utilization, and cost, and support high availability, disaster recovery, and production operations.
• Apply secure-by-design principles and implement least-privilege access, cryptographic verification, identity management, authorization, and safeguards for cross-chain messaging and token supply integrity.
• Build automated security, fuzzing, adversarial, and vulnerability testing; implement transaction validation, protocol invariants, and independent reconciliation.
• Participate in code reviews, incident investigations, remediation, security audits, and independent verification.
• Set measurable reliability, performance, and security standards before production releases.
• Independently design and deliver complex production-quality systems; investigate production failures, identify root causes, and contribute to architecture, engineering standards, documentation, and collaboration.

Benefits

• Equity in Launch Legends, Autheo, and the WFO Creator Network.
• Token allocations in the Autheo blockchain, including a THEO token allocation.
• Remote work and direct access to engineering leads and Managing Directors.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed