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Blockchain Engineers

Information TechnologyO*NET 15-1299.07United States

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.

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Median annual earnings
$113,638

50th percentile, United States

Projected change
+11.4%

2025 to 2035

Typical education
Bachelor's degree

75.2% of the workforce

Employment
499.03K jobs

Growing to 555.79K by 2035

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The work

What blockchain engineers do

Tasks reported for this occupation, ordered by how often they come up in the role.

  • 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.

Pay and outlook

What the job pays and where it is heading

Annual earnings range

Reported earnings by percentile, United States

10th percentile
$53,796
25th percentile
$76,983
50th percentile
$113,638
75th percentile
$155,092
90th percentile
$191,936

The gold marker shows the median. Half earn more than $113,638 and half earn less.

Employment outlook

2025 to 2035 projection

+11.4%faster than average
2025499,030 jobs
2035 projected555,787 jobs

56,757 more positions over the decade, before replacement hiring.

Preparation

Education levels

What people currently working in the career hold. These are not entry requirements.

Bachelor's degree
75.2%
Associate degree
12.9%
Certificate
7.2%
Master's or Professional degree
2.8%
Some college
2%

Skills

Skills employers ask for

Technical skills appearing most often in job postings for this occupation.

  • Blockchain
  • Smart Contracts
  • Scalability
  • Ethereum
  • Solidity (Programming Language)
  • Application Programming Interface (API)
  • Web 3.0
  • Distributed Ledgers
  • Computer Science
  • Software Engineering
  • Tokenization
  • Cryptography
  • Workflow Management
  • CI/CD
  • Pipelines
  • Rust (Programming Language)
  • Digital Assets
  • Microservices
  • Auditing
  • Bitcoin

How the work gets done

Core competencies

Broad capabilities associated with strong performance in this occupation.

In the market

Job titles and employers

Recent job postings in United States

Common job titles

  1. 01Blockchain Engineers133 postings
  2. 02Blockchain Developers120 postings
  3. 03Blockchain Specialists70 postings
  4. 04Blockchain Engineering Managers67 postings
  5. 05Blockchain Software Engineers58 postings
  6. 06Principal Investigators29 postings
  7. 07Protocol Managers19 postings
  8. 08Engineers17 postings
  9. 09DevSecOps Engineers16 postings
  10. 10Innovation Associates11 postings
  11. 11Blockchain Consultants9 postings
  12. 12Contract Engineers8 postings
  13. 13Distinguished Engineers7 postings
  14. 14Full Stack Engineers7 postings
  15. 15Supply Chain Architects7 postings
  16. 16Developers6 postings
  17. 17Google Cloud Architects6 postings
  18. 18Infrastructure Associates6 postings
  19. 19Global Technology Managers5 postings
  20. 20Principal Engineers5 postings

Top employers

  1. 01Coinbase Global33 postings
  2. 02FINRA29 postings
  3. 03RSM29 postings
  4. 04USG Corporation29 postings
  5. 05JPMorgan Chase21 postings
  6. 06Dtcc19 postings
  7. 07Depository Trust Clearing Corporation16 postings
  8. 08Accenture11 postings
  9. 09Delta System And Software.11 postings
  10. 10Paxos10 postings
  11. 11Ernst & Young9 postings
  12. 12Tata Consultancy Services9 postings
  13. 13IBM8 postings
  14. 14Ventures Unlimited8 postings
  15. 15Veridian Tech Solutions8 postings
  16. 16Charles Schwab6 postings
  17. 17Jobgether6 postings
  18. 18K&K Global Talent Solutions6 postings
  19. 19Workana6 postings
  20. 20Anchorage Digital5 postings

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