Blockchain Engineers Career, Salary and Skills
Blockchain Engineers have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $116,580 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 435,370. Wage data is published for 396 locations.
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.
O*NET code
15-1299.07
Job zone
4
Typical education
Bachelor's Degree
Experience
Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years
National salary and employment
Median annual
$116,580
Hourly median
$56.05
Employment
435,370
Data year
2025
National salary distribution
Top skills
| Skill | Importance | Level |
|---|---|---|
| Reading Comprehension | 4.00 | 4.12 |
| Active Listening | 3.75 | 3.75 |
| Critical Thinking | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Complex Problem Solving | 3.62 | 4.00 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3.50 | 3.75 |
| Active Learning | 3.50 | 3.62 |
| Systems Analysis | 3.38 | 3.25 |
| Programming | 3.38 | 3.50 |
| Time Management | 3.38 | 3.12 |
| Speaking | 3.25 | 3.62 |
Typical tasks
- 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.
- Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.
- Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
- Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.
- Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
Technology
- Amazon Elastic Container Service ECS
- Amazon Kinesis
- Amazon Simple Storage Service S3
- Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation
- Amazon Web Services AWS software
- Ansible software
- Apache Kafka
- Atlassian Confluence
- Atlassian JIRA
- C
- C#
- C++
- Docker
- Enterprise application integration EAI software
Blockchain Engineers salary by location
Areas with the highest reported employment for this occupation.
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in CAMedian $134,440 · Employment 80,150
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in TXMedian $111,530 · Employment 57,020
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in GAMedian $104,610 · Employment 20,630
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in Los Angeles, CAMedian $109,700 · Employment 20,060
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in Dallas, TXMedian $127,360 · Employment 19,540
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in MDMedian $144,680 · Employment 19,060
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in DCMedian $156,590 · Employment 17,200
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in VAMedian $139,030 · Employment 17,000
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in San Francisco, CAMedian $161,700 · Employment 16,930
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in San Jose, CAMedian $184,430 · Employment 16,680
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in New York, NYMedian $126,910 · Employment 16,230
- Blockchain Engineers Salary in NCMedian $104,850 · Employment 15,090
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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.