Solutions Engineer, Matter Labs
Institutional
Performance-based variable compensation and a long-term token incentive are additional. Both are paid in ZK tokens
Scaling Ethereum with Zero Knowledge Proofs
Open for applications
Scaling Ethereum with Zero Knowledge Proofs
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Performance-based variable compensation and a long-term token incentive are additional. Both are paid in ZK tokens
101-200 employees
Company mission
To advance personal freedom for all.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years in solutions engineering, sales engineering, enterprise architecture, or technical consulting in a customer-facing setting
- Working with banks, capital-markets firms, market infrastructure, payments businesses, or other regulated institutions
- Deep grounding in APIs, distributed systems, cloud and on-premise deployment, security, identity and access, and data privacy
- Leading complex technical evaluations or proofs of concept and converting them into production decisions
- Explaining complex systems to technical and non-technical audiences, with precise writing and disciplined expectation management
- Aligning sales, product, engineering, security, and customer teams without formal authority
Desirable
- Working knowledge of Ethereum, smart contracts, tokenisation, or zero-knowledge proofs
- Deep enterprise and financial-services experience can compensate for a lighter crypto background
What the job involves
- You will be the technical partner to Matter Labs' institutional sales team
- Your work turns customer requirements into credible Prividium architectures and moves opportunities from discovery through evaluation into a deployment plan the customer trusts
- The role owns technical discovery, solution design, evaluations and proofs of concept, and the technical response to security and due-diligence reviews
- It is a hands-on presales role at the intersection of enterprise architecture, financial markets, and zero-knowledge infrastructure
- Lead technical discovery. Map customer architecture, data privacy, identity and permissions, interoperability, performance, resilience, custody, and compliance constraints
- Design solutions. Translate customer workflows into target architectures for Prividium, including integration boundaries, APIs, deployment models, and the route from pilot to production
- Deliver demos and workshops. Build and run tailored demonstrations and technical workshops for audiences from engineering teams to senior business leaders
- Run evaluations. Define success criteria, scope proofs of concept, coordinate internal specialists, and keep pilots tied to a commercial decision
- Own technical diligence. Lead responses to RFPs, RFIs, security reviews, and architecture assessments, with support from Engineering, Security, Product, and Legal
- Prepare implementation. Produce solution documentation with explicit assumptions, dependencies, owners, and acceptance criteria, and hand over cleanly into delivery
- Feed the roadmap. Bring structured customer evidence into Product and Engineering, and separate repeatable market needs from one-off requests
- Over time, the reference architectures and playbooks you build become the foundation of the solutions-engineering function
Our take
While the Ethereum network offers users highly rated security, the trade-off is that its network volume isn’t sufficient to support fast, cheap transactions. Matter Labs is one of a small number of companies that are building scaling protocols through its zero-knowledge proof-driven product, zkSync.
It’s not the only company of its kind, with the likes of Arbitrum and Optimism also receiving plenty of publicity and funding. However, Matter Labs' zero-knowledge proof approach has been praised for both its transaction speed and security. If it were easy, however, many more companies would be doing it, so it appears that Matter Labs has made a significant headstart on the competition.
Over the last couple of years, the startup has secured some major funding from high-profile investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), and Union Square Ventures. Matter Labs released its renamed ZkSync Era - a zero-knowledge, open-source security platform on Ethereum in 2023. Matter Labs is now predicting zero-knowledge cryptography to outlive alternative "optimistic" security tech from the likes of Arbitrum.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
94% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2022
$200m
SERIES C
Nov 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $258m
Leadership
Alex Gluchowski
(Co-Founder & CEO)Has co-founded two previous startups, wellbeing platform Somuchmore (acquired by Urbansportsclub), and camper-rental startup PaulCamper.
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