Forward Deployed Engineer, Matter Labs
Scaling Ethereum with Zero Knowledge Proofs
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Scaling Ethereum with Zero Knowledge Proofs
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To advance personal freedom for all.
Role
Who you are
- Production software you have owned and run, including carrying a pager for it
- A strong coder. TypeScript or Rust in your day to day, or deep fluency in a comparable language such as Java, C#, Go, or Python and the ability to pick ours up fast
- Serious time inside customer environments, whether as a forward deployed engineer, a solutions architect, or a technical founder. Former founders are strongly encouraged to apply
What the job involves
- You will be the engineer embedded with our institutional customers, taking Prividium from a signed deal to a live chain inside their environment
- The institutions running on it are banks, custodians, and clearing houses moving real value on infrastructure built decades ago
- What you deploy becomes part of how they operate
- Requirements from an institution arrive as a description of the system being replaced, because that is how large organizations specify work, and because the obligations underneath are decades of accumulated regulation, audit, and control
- Reading through to those obligations is the hard part of this job
- We need someone who can find them, design the general thing that satisfies them for this customer and the next four, and put it in front of the customer's engineers as a firm recommendation they can push back on
- Own deployments end to end: integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrade paths, and the runbook the customer's ops team will use
- Build the reference applications that prove a use case, across collateral movement, tokenized deposit transfer, and settlement flows
- Carry the pager for Prividium and the services we run around it, including the night something breaks and the fix that stops it breaking again
- Work with the Head of Product and Head of Sales on which accounts to go deep on, and with our core engineering team on what graduates from a deployment into the platform
- If you come from banking
- Experience building or integrating software for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure
- Working knowledge of the systems banks run: core banking platforms, custody and key management, identity and entitlements, ISO 20022 or comparable messaging standards, enterprise auth and network architecture
- Fluency with risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, and procurement
- No blockchain experience required. We will teach you the stack
- If you come from crypto infrastructure
- Experience with Ethereum execution clients and node internals. Direct reth experience is a strong signal
- Rust in production, since that is where the node work lives
- Comfortable operating chain infrastructure in production: node topology, upgrades, sync and reorg behavior, monitoring
- Experience with Solidity or readiness to learn it quickly and a working understanding of rollup and bridging mechanics
- Able to explain cryptographic trust guarantees to audiences who do not have that background
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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