Blockchain Engineers
15-1299.07
Maintain and support distributed and decentralized blockchain-based networks or block-chain applications such as cryptocurrency exchange, payment processing, document sharing, and digital voting. Design and deploy secure block-chain design patterns and solutions over geographically distributed networks using advanced technologies. May assist with infrastructure setup and testing for application transparency and security.
Sample of reported job titles: Algorithm Engineer, Automation Engineer, Blockchain Analyst, Blockchain Architect, Blockchain Developer, Blockchain Engineer, Blockchain Penetration Tester, Blockchain Software Developer, Blockchain Software Engineer, Blockchain Threat Investigator, Blockchain Web Designer, Codebase Engineer, Engineer, Firmware Engineer, Integration Engineer, Integration Solutions Engineer, Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, Technical Platform Engineer
Occupation-Specific Information
Tasks
- Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.
- Automate the deployment of software updates over geographically distributed network nodes.
- Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.
- Design and develop blockchain technologies for industries such as finance and music.
- Design and implement dashboard and data visualizations to meet customer reporting needs.
- Design and implement data repositories to integrate data.
- Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.
- Determine specifications for, or implement, logging.
- Develop a maintainable code base using object-oriented design principles, practices, or patterns.
- Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
- Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.
- Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
- Evaluate new blockchain technologies and vendor products.
- Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.
- Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.
- Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.
- Update client and server applications responsible for integration and business logic.
Technology Skills
- Application server software - Amazon Elastic Container Service ECS; Docker π₯; GitHub π₯; Kubernetes π₯; Microservices Architecture; Spring Boot π₯
- Cloud-based data access and sharing software - Software as a service SaaS
- Cloud-based management software - Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation π₯
- Configuration management software - IBM Terraform π₯
- Content workflow software - Atlassian JIRA π₯
- Data base management system software - Amazon Kinesis; MongoDB π₯; MySQL π₯; NoSQL π₯
- Data base user interface and query software - Amazon Web Services AWS software π₯; Structured query language SQL π₯
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Development environment software -
Apache Kafka π₯; Go
; Kotlin; Microsoft Azure software π₯; Rust programming language; Software libraries; Solidity
- Enterprise application integration software - Enterprise application integration EAI software; Jenkins CI π₯
- Enterprise system management software - Splunk Enterprise π₯
- Expert system software - Ansible software π₯
- File versioning software - Git π₯
- Graphical user interface development software - Grafana Labs Grafana Cloud
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Object or component oriented development software -
C# π₯; C++ π₯; Oracle Java ; Oracle Java Message Service JMS; Python π₯; RabbitMQ; TypeScript π₯
- Object oriented data base management software - PostgreSQL π₯
- Operating system software - Linux π₯; Operating system software
- Project management software - Atlassian Confluence π₯
- Storage networking software - Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 π₯
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Web platform development software -
Google Angular π₯; JavaScript π₯; Node.js ; React π₯; RESTful API; Spring Framework π₯
Occupational Requirements
Work Activities
Detailed Work Activities
- Analyze security of systems, network, or data.
- Write computer programming code.
- Design integrated computer systems.
- Implement security measures for computer or information systems.
- Design software applications.
- Install computer software.
- Create databases to store electronic data.
- Develop computer or information security policies or procedures.
- Develop procedures for data management.
- Discuss design or technical features of products or services with technical personnel.
- Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies.
- Evaluate new technologies or methods.
- Test computer system operations to ensure proper functioning.
- Maintain computer equipment or software.