Senior Software Engineer, Platforms

Posted 7 Days Ago
Remote
7+ Years Experience
Blockchain • Software
The Role
OP Labs is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Platforms team. Responsibilities include supporting developer productivity, optimizing build and test times, core development of the Optimism protocol, and ensuring reliable development stack. Candidate should have experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Go, and a willingness to learn and adapt. Familiarity with decentralized protocols is a plus.
Summary Generated by Built In

We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a research group, we have sought to scale both its technology and values.

At present, the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this in the open (under an MIT open source license) because we believe in open source innovation and its ability to accelerate growth.

OP Labs is building Optimism mainnet, and by extension, the infrastructure that powers all OP-Stack chains. We are improving Ethereum’s performance by orders of magnitude and donating the profits from doing so to funding Ethereum public goods. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation, OP Labs can align its incentives with the public good and take positive-sum steps toward a sustainable future for the internet.


Who are we?

From the code to the values, we are Ethereum-aligned. We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a non-profit research group, we have have sought to scale both its technology and values.

At present the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this out in the open because we believe in open source and its ability to accelerate innovation.

Not only do we improve Ethereum's performance by orders of magnitude, we donate 100% of the profits generated from doing so to Ethereum public goods. We do this because we believe the future of the open internet is too important to be left to chance. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation we're able to align private incentives with public good and create a positive-sum economic model that provides a sustainable future for the internet.

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join our growing Platforms team. The goal of the Platforms team is to build the best development experience in crypto to support both internal and external open source protocol developers. An ideal candidate is high-agency and excited about ownership of tooling and infrastructure.

What are the role responsibilities?

  • Support developer productivity
  • Optimize continuous integration build and test times
  • Contribute to the core development of the Optimism protocol, with an emphasis on tooling and infrastructure
  • Work in public and across engineering teams to tighten the development feedback loop
  • Ensure our development stack is reliable and delightful for everyone on the team and for external open source contributors

What skills do you bring?

  • Experience working with Docker and optimizing Docker builds
  • Experience with Kubernetes
  • Experience developing with Go
  • Experience making software work on a variety of platforms and operating systems with emphasis on resource usage and monitoring
  • Willingness to learn from and adapt to the needs of your teammates
  • Desire to build a fantastic development experience for internal and external teams relying on our code
  • Familiarity with monorepo based software development
  • Prior hands-on experience with or exposure to development of decentralized protocols is a big plus

What will you like about us?

  • Solving groundbreaking problems in computer science
  • Working with a world-class team developing a technically challenging product critical to scaling Ethereum
  • Fully remote, deeply engaged, highly skilled, and yet really FUN team environment
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
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 our benefits, 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.

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Optimism, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

Top Skills

Docker
Go
Kubernetes
The Company
69 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

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 at OP Labs are building the critical infrastructure to address this need -- a protocol called Optimism -- an extension to Ethereum that scales both its technology and philosophy and enables orders of magnitude more performance. Ethereum will enable the greatest change in human coordination since the birth of the internet, and through the Optimism protocol, OP Labs is here to help bring it to the masses.

Join a team that is passionate about solving complex problems by exploring (and/or expanding) the boundaries of technology! We are a remote first company with local hubs where teams can co-work IRL, when safely able to do so. We aim to grow quickly, so come help us build! :-)

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