Senior Backend Engineer, Offchain Labs
$193.5-291k
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Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution
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Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$193.5-291k
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Offchain Labs' mission is to make Blockchain better.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Architect, or any occupation, job title, position designing, developing, and securing blockchain-based backend systems
- In lieu of a Bachelor's degree plus 5 years of experience, the employer will accept a Master's degree or U.S. equivalent in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or a related field, plus 3 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Architect, or any occupation, job title, position designing, developing, and securing blockchain-based backend systems
- 3 years of professional experience developing backend systems utilizing backend programming languages (including Go or Rust)
- 3 years working on protocols that span from L1s to L2s, including when the system is trying to reduce dependence on L1 smart contracts
- 3 years of professional experience collaborating with research teams to conduct cutting-edge research in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency platforms
- 3 years of professional experience building distributed systems, focusing on reliable broadcast protocols, distributed data structures, and high-performance database storage engines
- 3 years of professional experience working in collaboration with security and with coding in a security-focused mindset in distributed systems environments
- 3 years of professional experience working with blockchain protocols
- 1 year of experience working with WebAssembly, including writing high performant and high security code in production environments
- 1 year of professional experience utilizing cloud infrastructure and containerization technologies (including AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes)
What the job involves
- Work on the core infrastructure powering Arbitrum, the leading Ethereum scaling solution (20%)
- Tackle complex distributed systems challenges, optimize performance, and contribute to the security and scalability of Arbitrum (10%)
- Collaborate closely with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams, working at the cutting edge of blockchain technology alongside world-class engineers, including many industry leaders (10%)
- Provide ongoing technical support and engineering guidance to clients and internal stakeholders by diagnosing and resolving core platform engineering issues related to the company’s infrastructure and distributed systems (10%)
- Maintain the Nitro Testnode product, a development tool used by users to run local Arbitrum nodes, including implementing enhancements, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring reliability and usability for developers (10%)
- Conduct peer code reviews for engineering contributions to ensure code quality, architectural consistency, and adherence to software engineering best practices across the platform (15%)
- Establish and evangelize backend architectural standards, selection of tech stacks, and engineering best practices (5%)
- Design high-performance compiler pipelines and extensible SDK frameworks (10%)
- Work in collaboration with Security to resolve complex security issues and identify potential threats and vulnerabilities in code in distributed systems environments (5%)
- Drive the technical roadmap with the Product team for complex distributed systems and data modeling, overseeing the integration of multiple microservices, ensuring database scalability and integrity under high load, and designing "API-first" strategies that ensure longterm system interoperability (5%)
- Reports to HQ in New York, NY
Our take
The Ethereum blockchain has seen a surge in activity over the past year or so - but, much to users' frustration, its transaction volume has failed to scale accordingly, leading to hefty gas fees and slow transaction times. Offchain Labs is one of a few players developing Layer 2 rollup solutions, and its Arbitrum rollup has gathered substantial momentum and support in a relatively short time.
Offchain Labs’ Arbitrum claims to offer all the benefits of a rollup - less costly, more efficient - without compromising on security. It is, at the time of writing, the only scaling solution for Ethereum that has working fraud proofs, and at the end of 2021 was dominating the layer 2 rollup market share.
This kind of high-profile and superior efficacy determines a successful blockchain technology. With Offchain Labs’ leadership pedigree and its string of acquisitions, it’s no surprise the company is leading rollup innovation efforts. This sector, however, moves at lightning speed—and the competing ZK rollups are by no means out of the picture just yet.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2021
$120m
SERIES B
Apr 2021
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $143.7m
Company benefits
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) with company match
- Pre-tax commuter benefits
- Environment geared toward brainstorming and learning
- Generous paid time off - everyone needs to recharge!
Leadership
Steven Goldfeder
(Co-Founder & CEO)A Princeton PhD graduate in Computer Science, who also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech.
Ed Felten
(Co-Founder & Chief Scientist)A retired Princeton professor of Comp Sci & Public Affairs, who formerly worked as Deputy United States CTO at the White House.
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