About the role
Responsibilities Design and develop decentralized peer-to-peer networking and infrastructure coordination services Develop, maintain, and optimize Layer 1 blockchain infrastructure and node operations Design, develop, test, and deploy secure smart contracts supporting Autheo services Develop AI agents and agentic workflows for distributed infrastructure management Design scalable, resilient infrastructure across public cloud, private cloud, and bare-metal Apply secure-by-design principles across blockchain protocols and AI execution Requirements Strong production experience with Rust and/or Python, plus Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, or Solidity Distributed systems, concurrency, fault tolerance and networking experience Production blockchain applications, EVM ecosystems, Cosmos SDK, IBC or equivalent Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud services, CI/CD and production troubleshooting Practical experience building Python LLM applications or agents (for AI-focused candidates) Link to code you wrote Preferred Qualifications 7+ years of professional software engineering with production systems ownership Operating decentralized infrastructure networks Cosmos SDK, CometBFT, IBC or EVM internals Production Rust async experience (Tokio) PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, NATS and distributed messaging Security audits or blockchain incident response Benefits Equity in Launch Legends and Autheo, plus THEO token allocation No cash salary; commitment of at least 20 hours per week About the Company Launch Legends is building Autheo, an AI-enabled Layer-0 operating system with an integrated Layer-1 blockchain and decentralized compute, storage, identity and marketplace infrastructure.