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title: 'Protocol Software Engineer - Storage at Sei Labs'
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# Protocol Software Engineer - Storage at Sei Labs

- **Company:** Sei Labs
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sei-labs/765a0eca-f868-4ed2-a1ac-98911e1e2b7b

## Job description

## About Sei Labs

Sei Labs builds open sourced technology for the high-performance Sei Blockchain, the first parallelized EVM Layer 1 blockchain designed to scale with the industry. The unique optimizations built into Sei enable Web3 applications to reach Web2 level scale and performance, driving the mass adoption of digital assets.

Our teams are comprised of former Google, Goldman Sachs, Robinhood, Nvidia, and Databricks veterans dedicated to onboarding the next billion users onto a vibrant ecosystem of applications.

Sei Labs has raised over $30M from top investors including Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Hudson River Trading, and Flow Traders.

Check out our website https://www.sei.io/ and docs https://www.docs.sei.io/dev-intro for more details.

Storage at Sei

Sei Labs is looking for a Protocol Engineer specialized in the EVM to lead the development of core components of the Sei Blockchain. Our mission at Sei is to Scale the EVM, you’d be at the epicenter of everything we’re about.

You'll work at the forefront of blockchain infrastructure, designing and optimizing the foundational layers of a high-performance, scalable decentralized network on our Storage team. You'll be helping build the most performant end to end solution for a massive amount of data as the Sei network hits mainstream traction. If you're passionate about low-level systems design, performance optimization, and shaping the future of decentralized networks, this is a great opportunity to make a lasting impact in Web3.

## Responsibilities

- Write code to build the core sei blockchain (execution, consensus, state management, etc.)
- Analyze and own the end to end performance of Sei’s EVM implementations.
- Proactively identify and drive optimizations and improvements to the product.
- Take ownership over your work and the work of the team.

## Qualifications

- 5+ years of infrastructure engineering experience
- 2+ years of EVM specific work in building and scaling a Layer 1 blockchains performance
- Deep end to end understanding of the EVM from execution to storage
- A proven tech lead with experience planning and leading large projects with long-term impact on a single system or team
- Strong technical grasp and excellent judgment on task prioritizations
- Able to tackle complex engineering problems that deliver results
- History of creating and applying new processes and tooling to increase engineering efficiency

## About Sei Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sei Labs is a product-driven research and development lab building the high-performance Sei blockchain, the fastest EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain designed for digital asset trading and global markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed; $35M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Jeff F. (Co-Founder), Jayendra Jog (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: Blockchain Infrastructure, Cryptocurrency, FinTech/DeFi
- **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, trading firms, decentralized exchanges, and consumer-facing Web3 application builders
- **Mission**: To build category-defining products and global-scale blockchain infrastructure, unlocking a new design space for consumer-facing applications and onboarding the next billion users into a vibrant ecosystem.

## Products & Services
- **[Sei Blockchain (Sei Network)]**: The fastest EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, purpose-built for trading. Features sub-400ms finality, 200K TPS throughput, and the proprietary Autobahn consensus engine. It is designed to support stablecoins, payments, DeFi, tokenized assets, and AI agent economies.
- **[Monaco Trading]**: A quantitative trading platform and infrastructure project incubated by Sei Labs.
- **Incubations Program**: An internal arm that works with founders and teams dedicated to open access and programmable commerce, helping launch new blockchain-native products.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**:
    - **Annual Revenue**: $1.5M (estimated by LinkedIn).
    - **Total Funding**: $35M across 2 rounds.
        - Seed Round (Aug 2022): $5M from 4 investors.
        - Venture Round (Apr 2023): $30M from 10 investors including Jump Crypto, Multicoin Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Distributed Global, Hudson River Trading, and Flow Traders.
        - Venture Round (Nov 2023): Additional round from 1 investor.
- **Growth Signals**: The Sei blockchain has processed over **5 billion total transactions**. The team has grown ~13.7% year-over-year to 54 employees. Active job postings increased 120% month-over-month, signaling strong hiring momentum. The network is integrated with leading developer tooling and is backed by global infrastructure partners including Visa (via the Sei Foundation).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Performance Moats**: The Sei blockchain holds a performance advantage with sub-400ms finality and 200K TPS, significantly faster than most competing Layer 1 chains. Its Autobahn consensus mechanism (multi-proposer architecture) provides a 50x throughput improvement over Tendermint-based chains.
- **Trading-Specific Design**: Unlike general-purpose blockchains, Sei is purpose-built for digital asset markets with native order book optimizations, making it the go-to infrastructure for trading applications.
- **Top-Tier Backing**: Backed by elite institutional investors from both traditional finance (Jump Crypto, Hudson River Trading, Flow Traders) and crypto-native funds (Multicoin, Coinbase Ventures).

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling to "Giga"**: The team is actively developing "Sei Giga," a next-gen upgrade aiming to support the world's largest payment, trading, and consumer AI platforms simultaneously without bottlenecks.
- **Ecosystem Expansion**: Focused on onboarding EVM developers via full compatibility, builder grants, and a thriving community. Key focus areas include Stablecoins & Payments, DeFi, Tokenized Assets, and AI/Agentic Economies.
- **Global Markets**: Positioning the Sei blockchain as "The Onchain Standard for Global Finance," targeting institutional adoption.

## Why Work Here
- **Team & Culture**: Described as a "product-driven research & development lab" staffed by veterans from Google, Goldman Sachs, Robinhood, Nvidia, and Databricks. The culture is heavily technical and research-oriented, with a focus on open-source development.
- **Work Policy**: Hybrid/On-site. Offices in **San Francisco (HQ)** and **New York City**. Job listings specify "Hybrid" or "Remote or Hybrid," indicating flexibility, though most roles require some in-office presence.
- **Notable Perks**: Work at the frontier of blockchain scalability and speed. Employees get to work on extremely high-impact infrastructure problems (consensus, storage, trading systems) that handle billions of transactions.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on R&D. The team is split ~18% technical (engineers, researchers) with active recruiting for Protocol Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Quantitative Developers. The work is on "category-defining" global-scale blockchain infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [Official Sei Labs Website](https://www.seilabs.io/)
2. [Sei Network (Blockchain Product)](https://www.sei.io/)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/seilabs)
4. [Built In Profile & Reviews](https://builtin.com/company/sei-labs)
5. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sei-labs)

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