Protocol Security Engineer - Incident Response

September 25

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Description

• We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. • At present, the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. • 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. • The OP Labs security team is looking for a passionate and innovative protocol security engineer to lead the Superchain’s incident response efforts. • The person joining the team will be building tooling and platforms to detect and respond to security incidents within the Superchain.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a software or security engineering role. • 3+ years of experience in protocol and smart contract security. • Deep knowledge of Ethereum and the EVM required. • Strong grasp of computer science and distributed systems fundamentals required. • Prior experience in incident response for a large protocol or a production critical system. • Must be an excellent written communicator. Comfortable writing clear and concise documents that the rest of the team can consume and implement. • Detail oriented. Must be comfortable identifying issues regardless of how small, and helping team triage issues. • High agency. This person must be able to proactively identify issues and improvements, and then fix them. The team shouldn’t have to hand-hold successful candidates.

Benefits

• 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.