Engineer, Blockchain Platforms

About the role

Your opportunity At Charles Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s). We are hiring an Engineer, Blockchain Platforms to help build and integrate the blockchain infrastructure layer that underpins Schwab’s digital asset custody and tokenization platforms. This is a hands‑on engineering role focused on Layer‑1 blockchain integration, core blockchain infrastructure components, wallet engineering, and custody‑related blockchain workflows. The role works in close partnership with Crypto Custody Lead Engineers and Crypto Security Engineers to ensure blockchain interactions are secure, reliable, observable, and production‑ready. This engineer operates at the intersection of blockchain protocol mechanics and institutional custody systems.

Responsibilities

• Integrate Schwab systems with existing Layer‑1 blockchains (e.g., Ethereum‑based or other enterprise‑relevant L1s).
• Evaluate and, where appropriate, contribute to building or extending Layer‑1 capabilities to meet custody, scalability, or resiliency needs.
• Understand chain‑level mechanics such as transaction lifecycle, finality, forks, reorgs, and event propagation.
• Ensure blockchain integrations are reliable under stress conditions and production loads.
• Design and build core blockchain infrastructure services, including: Indexers and event processors, Block explorers and observability tooling, Chain data services and APIs, Interoperability and cross‑chain integration components.
• Ensure blockchain data pipelines are accurate, performant, and auditable.
• Support operational tooling required for troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident response.
• Contribute to wallet architecture and development, including: Blockchain‑facing wallet services, Transaction creation, signing workflows, and submission pipelines, Integration with custody key management systems (MPC, HSMs, signing services).
• Ensure wallet implementations cleanly separate protocol logic, security controls, and business rules.
• Partner closely with custody and security engineers to validate end‑to‑end transaction flows.
• Share responsibility for custody‑related blockchain workflows, including: On‑chain transaction execution, Event monitoring and reconciliation, Chain‑specific failure handling and recovery patterns.
• Help define safe patterns for interacting with smart contracts and token standards from custody platforms.
• Ensure blockchain workflows align with custody policies, approvals, and risk controls.
• Apply modern engineering practices to build reliable, testable, and observable blockchain services.
• Leverage GenAI and agentic AI tools to accelerate: Protocol analysis, Code development and testing, Documentation and knowledge sharing.
• Maintain engineering rigor—speed without sacrificing correctness or safety.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Hands‑on experience building or integrating blockchain or distributed ledger systems.
• Strong understanding of Layer‑1 blockchain protocols and transaction lifecycles.