The successful applicant will be responsible for drafting contracts and providing legal advice to Facebooks blockchain initiatives.
These include holding a graduate-level Juris Doctor degree, having over five years of legal experience and over four years experience of working at or for technology companies.
Facebooks interests in blockchain and cryptocurrency are no longer a secret, so while these hirings are interesting indicators of where Facebook might be taking its blockchain projects, they are not as surprising as they would have been this time last year.
A few months later it was clear the company was going big on blockchain but no one really knew why or what it was working on.
But earlier this month all the news became clear as it became apparent that Facebook was working on its own cryptocurrency.