Senior Protocol Engineer, Rust

Company

OP Labs PBC, formerly known as Optimism PBC, is bringing Web2 usability to Web3 apps. Built by Ethereum developers, for Ethereum developers, OP Labs is the only secure decentralized blockchain infrastructure specifically intended to optimize and scale Ethereum. OP Labs develops open-source codebase software and operates optimistic L2 rollups to ensure Ethereum maintains the three central properties of blockchain: decentralization, security, and scalability.OP Labs can be seen as an extension of Ethereum, from its philosophy down to its tech stack.

They promote the growth and sustainability of public goods, through Retroactive Public Goods Funding, never to be captured by private commercial interests. They aim to make transacting on Ethereum affordable and accessible to everyone.

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will develop and support the Rust-based components of the OP Stack alongside a strong team of protocol engineers committed to code quality and velocity. We value contributors excited about solving computer science problems and decentralization. You can read more about the work here.

What are the role responsibilities?

Work alongside the OP Labs Rust Team on continued development of the Rust-based OP Stack components
Own features from design to implementation
Implement protocol upgrades
Support additional core development teams in contributing to the OP Stack

What skills do you bring?

Extensive experience in a software engineering role shipping production code
Deep knowledge of Ethereum and the EVM
Strong grasp of computer science and distributed systems fundamentals
Experience writing performant and clean Rust code

What will you like about us?

We take care of our employees. Competitive compensation, fully paid medical, dental, and vision, and a 4% 401K match—learn more about ourbenefits, culture, and all recruiting FAQ here.
We take pride in the accomplishments of our teammates and support each other in doing the best work of our careers.
Our team is a diverse group of people from varied backgrounds. We cherish our eclecticism and consider it a great strength.
We’re fully remote, deeply engaged, highly skilled, and like to have fun.
We think long-term. Our founders have been scaling Ethereum since 2015.

Compensation Range: $180K - $210K

Life at Optimism Foundation

Everybody and their mother working on blockchains loves the word “decentralization”. On a broad, world-changing scale, we can all agree that it’s important. Yet, when we zoom into the specifics of how to build this decentralized world, we find many diverse approaches. Whether it’s defi, identity, art, healthcare, or anything in between, a single dependency unites each dream for the future: scalability. We are building the critical infrastructure to address this need. Optimistic Ethereum is an extension to Ethereum that scales both its technology and philosophy. Not only do we enable orders of magnitude more performance, we’re also doubling down on Ethereum’s values as a public good, never to be captured by private commercial interests. Ethereum will enable the greatest change in human coordination since the birth of the internet, and Optimism is here to bring it to the masses.

Thrive Here & What We Value1. Transparent and feedbackdriven culture2. Funcentric work environment3. Diverse and inclusive team4. Supportive and collaborative atmosphere5. Emphasis on employee wellbeeing (fully paid medical, dental, vision benefits)6. 4% 401K match7. Commitment to building an inclusive and supportive work environment

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