Site Reliability Engineer, Offchain Labs
Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution
Job no longer available
Ethereum layer 2 scaling solution
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
Offchain Labs' mission is to make Blockchain better.
Role
Who you are
- Excited to learn and develop blockchain technology (No experience yet? No problem!)
- Posses experience with Kubernetes and AWS
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines; preferably CodeBuild, CodePipeline, Spinnaker, and Github Actions
- Have worked with log collection frameworks; preferably NewRelic, ELK, and Cloudwatch
- Experience with Terraform or Cloudformation
- Solid understanding of threat modeling and secure system architecture
- Experience with high performance networking, application load balancers, and VPC setup
- Experienced in Linux and shell scripting; Python and Go experience strongly preferred
- Have set up VPNs and multi-region access
- Possess a strong sense of ownership in your work, which drives you to find ways to do things better and faster
- Always up-to-speed on the latest technologies
- Constantly on the lookout for new and innovative ways to solve complex problems through rigorous experimentation
- Open, transparent and direct communication style while working in tight collaboration with your teammates
- Always open to feedback, new ideas and opportunities for self-improvement
- Actively look for ways to help out beyond the scope of your day-to-day work
- Significant hands on experience with a cloud environment and Kubernetes
- Security background and knowledge
- Experience with high performance networking
- Significant experience with a scripting language
What the job involves
- Offchain Labs is building a suite of scaling solutions for Ethereum. This includes Arbitrum, an Optimistic Rollup, that instantly scales apps, reducing costs and increasing capacity, without sacrificing Ethereum's security
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.
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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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