Staff Solutions Architect, LayerZero Labs
Omnichain interoperability protocol
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Omnichain interoperability protocol
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities.
Role
Who you are
- Have 5–10+ years in customer facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform/Infra Engineer, or Protocol Engineer
- Have a strong grasp of blockchain fundamentals and Web3 architecture: consensus basics, L1/L2 and rollups, bridging models, wallets and signing, vaults, custody, and common DeFi patterns
- Are comfortable reading and writing code - ideally in TypeScript, Rust, Go, and/or Solidity - and can quickly understand someone else’s stack
- Have deep experience with integration architecture patterns and APIs (REST/gRPC/WebSockets, webhooks, event streams, OAuth/identity, etc.)
- Can explain complex technical concepts simply, adapting your language for engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders
- Enjoy whiteboarding, system design, and storytelling, and can guide a customer from vague ideas to concrete architecture and rollout plans
- Are comfortable in a fast‑moving, ambiguous environment, juggling multiple high‑stakes accounts at once
- Bonus: have worked with financial services, trading, or other highly regulated industries and understand their risk, compliance, and integration constraints
What the job involves
- As a Solutions Architect, you are the technical owner of the customer journey from first deep‑dive through successful production deployment
- You will lead discovery, design architectures, build proof‑of‑concepts, and clearly explain how LayerZero fits into a customer’s existing stack (on‑chain, off‑chain, and AI/data systems). You’ll work closely with our FDEs and Product teams to ensure what we propose is not only compelling, but actually shippable and supportable
- This is a hands‑on, customer‑facing role - not a pure slideware or support function. You’ll be expected to whiteboard, write code for demos and POCs, and speak fluently about both Web3 primitives and modern software & architecture
- LayerZero’s Solutions Architecture team is the technical front line for our go‑to‑market motion. We partner closely with Business Development, Forward Deployed Engineering, and core Product/Protocol teams to help customers design and adopt cross‑chain architectures built on LayerZero
- We engage with a wide range of organizations - from DeFi protocols and Web3 infrastructure teams, to global banks, asset managers, and enterprises exploring blockchain and AI‑driven use cases - and act as trusted advisors on interoperability, security, and system design
- Partner with BD and Sales to qualify opportunities, run technical discovery, and map customer requirements to concrete interoperability designs
- Design reference and bespoke architectures that integrate LayerZero with customer systems - including smart contracts, wallets/custody, trading or settlement systems, data platforms, and banking/payments rails
- Lead technical presentations, workshops, and demos, tailoring the depth to audiences ranging from protocol engineers to C‑level executives
- Build and validate POCs and pilot integrations, often writing or reviewing code (e.g., smart contracts, backend services, or sample apps) to prove out patterns
- Document architectures, integration plans, and best practices, including sequence diagrams, threat models, and rollout strategies
- Collaborate with Integrations/Forward Deployed Engineering on hand‑offs from POC to production, ensuring continuity and a clean path to scale
- Advise on security and reliability for cross‑chain flows: failure modes, monitoring, incident response, and operational runbooks
- Stay current on Web3 trends (L1/L2 roadmaps, bridging standards, custody, regulation) and use that knowledge to shape customer strategy
- Gather structured field feedback and feed it back into Product and Protocol teams, influencing our roadmap and SDKs
- Contribute to external‑facing content - sample apps, blog posts, talks, and reference architectures that help the ecosystem build better cross‑chain systems
Our take
As the crypto ecosystem continues to evolve, the demand for high-throughput apps has been on the rise. However, the infrastructure required to meet this need has been in short supply as users, data, and liquidity have been fragmented across various apps on different chains.
Led by three co-founders that have a substantial history of founding multiple startups together, LayerZero Labs is solving this problem by providing an omnichain interoperability protocol that integrates decentralized applications (dApps).
The unicorn company has an impressive list of backers and tripled its $1B valuation from March 2022 to $3B in April 2023. Its latest funding is being invested in hiring and expansion, particularly across the Asia-Pacific region. Its range of app innovation opportunities that have arisen from its work has LayerZero Labs well set to build on its path of success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
91% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$55m
LATE VC
Apr 2023
$120m
SERIES B
Total funding: $318m
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Bryan Pellegrino
(Co-Founder & CEO)Current Rho AI Entrepreneur in Residence. Co-Founder of OpenToken, former CEO of BuzzDraft, and Co-Founder/former COO of Coder Den.
Ryan Zarick
(Co-Founder & CTO)Co-Founded, Minimal AI, Coder Den, and 80Trill. Former CTO of BuzzDraft.
Caleb Banister
(Co-Founder)Co-Founded, Minimal AI, Coder Den, and 80Trill. Former Software Developer at UNH InterOperability Lab.
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