World · 1 day ago
Staff Software Engineer, Protocol
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$225K/yr - $275K/yr
10+ years expWorld is building a real human network designed to accelerate people in the age of AI. In this role, you will drive development of the core protocols that power the World ecosystem including services that support World ID, World Chain, and related systems, while collaborating closely with various teams to build mission-critical services.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyFinanceFinTechInternetPrivacy
Responsibilities
Drive the design and implementation of production ready services to support the World ecosystem
Write clean, efficient and maintainable code in Rust
Own features from design to deployment. Provide thorough code review to help increase the maintainability of critical services
Collaborate with teams across a variety of disciplines including cryptography, blockchain infrastructure, AI, and hardware to solve challenging problems and deliver robust, scalable solutions
Take ownership of deployments, monitoring, and long-term maintenance of services in production
Qualification
Required
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including at least 2+ years building in production with Rust
You have a T-shaped skillset and bring strong technical depth in areas like distributed systems, protocol design, blockchain, zero-knowledge cryptography or related topics and you're eager to lead in one or more of these domains
You have extensive experience running services in production and are well-versed in distributed tracing, logging, metrics, alerting, and on-call operations
You've been through incident response and know what it's like to be in the war room
You value clean, well-tested code and understand the importance of engineering best practices in writing scalable, maintainable software
Above all, you're excited to help shape the foundation of a privacy-preserving digital identity ecosystem
Benefits
Unlimited PTO
Monthly Phone Reimbursement or a company device
Daily in-office meals
Top-tier medical, dental, vision insurance
401k + employer match program
Life insurance
Flexible time off
Commuter benefits
Professional development stipend
Company
World
World connects users through a privacy-focused network with secure digital asset management.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$135M2025-05-21Undisclosed· $135M
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