Skills

Geth, Cosmos SDK, Chainlink, Coinbase, Kraken — Go is the workhorse of crypto infrastructure and exchange backends.

ZK proofs, ZK-rollups, ZK identity. The fastest-growing specialty in crypto cryptography, with eye-watering salaries for protocol-level engineers at Starknet, zkSync, Polygon zkEVM, Scroll, and Linea.

Data engineering, quant research, on-chain analytics, ML, and tooling. The default for anyone working with on-chain data at scale.

Developer relations for protocols, SDKs, and L2s. Heavy writing, talks, sample apps, and developer experience work.

Frontend roles at every protocol, exchange, and wallet. React, wagmi, viem, and ethers are table stakes for Web3 frontend.

Type-safe JavaScript powers most of crypto's API, SDK, and frontend layer. Required across virtually every product team.

Node operations, validator infra, on-call for chain-critical services. Pays well because downtime in crypto is measured in dollars per second.

Product roles at protocols, exchanges, wallets, and consumer crypto apps. Specialized variants for DeFi, infra, and compliance.

Smart contract auditing, on-chain forensics, key management, MEV defence, and incident response. The most defensible career path in crypto after every multi-million-dollar exploit.

The dominant smart-contract language on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Optimism, and every EVM chain. Highest-volume hiring language in crypto and the entry point most engineers take into Web3.

Broader smart-contract engineering across Solidity, Vyper, Cairo, Move, and Rust. Audits, formal verification, gas optimization, and protocol architecture all live here.

Resource-oriented smart-contract language used by Sui and Aptos. Designed around asset safety from the ground up; talent is rare and well-compensated.

Powers Solana, Polkadot, Hyperliquid, Aptos, Sui, NEAR, and most modern Layer-1s. Memory-safe systems language that's become the default for new high-performance chains.

Market making, statistical arbitrage, perpetuals trading, MEV strategies. Among the highest-paid careers in crypto, often token + PnL share on top of base.

The Starknet-native language for writing provable programs. Smaller talent pool than Solidity, which means salary premiums for engineers shipping production Cairo.