About PIP Labs & Story
PIP Labs is the team behind Story, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain designed specifically for intellectual property. With Story, creators and data owners can register their assets on-chain and set usage terms in seconds, dramatically lowering the barrier of today’s complex and antiquated IP legal systems. In February 2025, we launched the Story mainnet, and our native $IP token is now listed on major global exchanges.
We recently announced Confidential Data Rails (CDR), a new core feature for Story that enables secure and programmable transfer of private data. This building block makes Story a unique blockchain for the AI era and creates open marketplaces for data and AI models.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Blockchain Engineer to help shape the future of Confidential Data Rails (CDR) and other innovative features for Story. You'll contribute directly to CDR development, improve network performance and reliability, and help build features that make Story the best platform for creators, developers, and AI agents. This is a hands-on role with significant ownership over how new capabilities are designed and implemented.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and improve Cosmos SDK modules and Geth precompiled contracts
- Design and implement new cryptographic primitives such as Distributed Key Generation (DKG) and Threshold decryption
- Work closely with platform, infra, and product teams to define system behavior and integrate new protocol features
- Optimize consensus and execution performance, reliability, and efficiency
- Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code reviews
- Investigate potential reported issues, debug complex distributed system behaviors, and help ensure network stability
What We're Looking For:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, including significant work with Cosmos SDK, Tendermint/CometBFT, EVM, or other Layer 1 blockchain frameworks
- Strong experience with Go (Golang)
- Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals and cryptography
- Experience with blockchain architecture (consensus, state machines, storage, cryptography), or strong willingness to learn
- Comfort working in a fast-moving startup with high ownership and end-to-end responsibility
Nice To Have:
- Experience implementing state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithms
- Contributions to blockchain open-source projects
- Familiarity with Cosmos Modules
- Understanding of token economics or on-chain governance models
