Blockchain Engineers

Overview

Blockchain Engineers has a national median salary of $116,580 per year, with +5.1% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

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.

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
• Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.
• Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.
• Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.
• Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.

Work Activities

• Working with Computers
• Processing Information
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Getting Information
• Analyzing Data or Information
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Thinking Creatively

Detailed Work Activities

• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a master's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Master's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a bachelor's degree.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Blockchain Engineers:

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