OP Labs

👥 11-50Developer ToolsIT InfrastructureEthereumSoftware💼 Private Company
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OP Labs is a software development company focused on scaling Ethereum technology and its core values. Their primary product is Optimism, a protocol extending Ethereum to significantly improve performance. The company is at the forefront of the blockchain protocol landscape, fostering a scalable and sustainable ecosystem dedicated to solving key coordination issues. OP Labs contributes to the Optimism protocol, enabling orders of magnitude improved performance and scalability to Ethereum. They are tackling pivotal coordination challenges of the digital age, harmonizing private incentives with public good for a resilient internet. Their current tech stack includes TypeScript, Solidity, and Golang, alongside established technologies like Google Analytics, CDN, and various schema implementations. Engineering practices emphasize open-source contributions and developer experience. OP Labs is a remote-first company with a global presence, offering local hubs for team collaboration. Their culture emphasizes a diverse team and collaborative environment. They prioritize employee well-being, offering competitive compensation and benefits, including fully paid medical, dental, vision, and 401k match. Their long-term vision is reflected in their team's commitment to scaling Ethereum since 2015. OP Labs is actively hiring for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join their Developer Experience (DevX) team. This role will be integral in building tools and services to improve the Superchain development process. The team is seeking individuals with a strong engineering background, a passion for the developer experience, and a commitment to open source development. The company is well-funded as evidenced in the Crunchbase data.

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🔥 VP Engineering
Posted about 8 hours ago

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Blockchain

  • 15+ years of experience in engineering leadership roles, preferably within the blockchain or cryptocurrency sectors.
  • Expertise in Ethereum, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and Layer 2 scaling technologies.
  • Experience managing open-source projects and fostering contributor communities is a strong advantage.
  • Proven track record of successfully delivering complex technical projects, from ideation to production.
  • Deep understanding of software architecture, design principles, and development best practices.
  • A commitment to security and a passion for protecting and advancing the Ethereum ecosystem.
  • Guide and mentor engineering leaders, fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
  • Set the technical vision and align engineering efforts with organizational goals.
  • Oversee the design of critical system components and evaluate emerging technologies.
  • Conduct technical reviews, optimize engineering practices, and support security assessments.
  • Develop processes to enable open-source contributors to deliver secure, high-quality code across the OP-Stack ecosystem.
  • Implement tools and processes to enhance engineering efficiency and ensure consistent delivery.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to maintain a high-performance engineering environment.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management and DevOps, to ensure cohesive architecture and best practices.
  • Serve as a technical leader, bridging engineering efforts with broader organizational strategies.
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🔥 Smart Contract Engineer
Posted about 8 hours ago

📍 Global

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

  • Proven experience as a Solidity Developer with a strong portfolio of deployed smart contracts.
  • In-depth knowledge of the EVM and Ethereum development tools.
  • Proficiency in Solidity, with a deep understanding of smart contract development patterns.
  • Strong understanding of security practices in smart contract development.
  • Strong understanding of cryptographic principles.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Develop, test, and deploy smart contracts that secure billions of dollars.
  • Help push forward the state-of-the-art for how smart contracts are developed and deployed.
  • Keep up-to-date with the bleeding edge of EVM changes and proposals.
  • Work with other teams and other disciplines within OP Labs, and with our ecosystem of external developers and partners.
Posted about 8 hours ago
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📍 Global

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Blockchain Development

  • Proven experience developing in Go, Rust, or another similar language.
  • Blockchain development experience.
  • Experience in systems programming, ideally in developing low-level software such as virtual machines, interpreters, or compilers.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical details clearly and collaborate effectively with team members.
  • Strong understanding of cryptographic principles.
  • Evolve our proof system to meet stage 2 requirements using dispute games and/or validity proofs.
  • Contribute to important Go-based and possibly Rust-based Ethereum and OP Stack infrastructure, for example Cannon, the Fault Proof VM.
  • Work with other teams and other disciplines within OP Labs, and with our ecosystem of external developers and partners.
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🔥 Senior Protocol Engineer, Go
Posted about 8 hours ago

📍 Global

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

  • 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 Go and Solidity
  • Work alongside the OP Labs Interop pod towards the development of the multi-proof OP Stack
  • Own features from design to implementation
  • Implement protocol upgrades
  • Support additional core development teams in contributing to the OP Stack
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🔥 Principal Engineer
Posted about 8 hours ago

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

  • 10+ years of experience bringing large, deeply technical projects to production
  • 5+ years of blockchain development experience.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document technical details clearly and collaborate effectively with team members.
  • Strong understanding of cryptographic principles.
  • Experience with Zero Knowledge Proofs or ZK VMs is a nice-to-have.
  • Design unstoppable architecture and next-level tooling that powers the largest crypto ecosystem, ensuring everything you build leaves a legendary imprint on the industry.
  • Focus on the team by equipping and building up the whole team, including mentoring other engineers, identifying better ways of working together and leading by example.
  • Champion mind-blowing, strategic initiatives that echo across the ecosystem (and sometimes the entire industry), leaving no doubt about your impact.
  • Make the tough calls on tech direction—aligning bold decisions with business needs and our long-term blockchain vision—because we don’t just follow trends, we set them.
  • Team up with heavy-hitters across Product, Engineering, and GTM to represent the entire engineering org, forging alliances that rocket our collective impact to new heights.
  • Support the Head of Engineering by helping to set the direction for major initiatives and ensure they are driven to completion without oversight.
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🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

  • Experience managing cloud infrastructure and services in production environments
  • Expertise in containerized infrastructure, Kubernetes, cloud providers (e.g., GCP, AWS), Infrastrucure-as-Code and deployment automation tools (e.g., Terraform and Ansible)
  • Strong people leadership competency with a track-record of successfully mentoring and growing experienced engineers
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Operationalize and automate deployments of the OP Stack
  • Identify and drive operational improvements in areas such as alerting, infrastructure monitoring, workflow orchestration and node maintenance
  • Uphold and maintain team SLAs and a strong culture of operational excellence
  • Define and execute against the cloud security roadmap and drive DevSecOps practices and culture within the broader organization
Posted about 13 hours ago
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📍 Global

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Blockchain

  • A track record of building and managing high-performing teams.
  • Expertise in D&R tooling, both building in-house tooling and integrating with tools like Grafana and Opsgenie.
  • Strong communication skills, to enable other teams and coordinate drills.
  • Understanding of threat modeling, to identify the highest leverage monitors.
  • Ability to plan projects, and set OKRs and measurable outcomes for the team.
  • Build out a dedicated D&R team responsible for monitoring Superchain smart contracts and infrastructure.
  • Develop and maintain a robust monitoring and alerting framework for the Superchain, enabling developers to easily stand up monitoring and ensuring coverage of critical contracts.
  • Establish a clear incident response program (including runbooks, escalation paths, and SLAs) that both OP Labs and other core developers can follow.
  • Coordinate cross-functional security drills (e.g., tabletop exercises) on a quarterly basis to validate and improve the organization’s readiness and response posture.
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📍 Worldwide

🧭 Full-Time

🔍 Software Development

  • Strong background in full stack software engineering with experience building full stack application and APIs (experience building developer tools and/or blockchain applications is nice to have, as is some understanding of JSON-RPC and the EVM).
  • Comfortable writing in Typescript, Solidity, and Golang or confident that you can pick them up quickly.
  • History of contribution to open source projects.
  • A deep interest in improving tools for developers and making the development process easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable.
  • You should feel comfortable owning the infrastructure part of the application stack (CI/CD, databases, k8s, etc.) when needed, or be willing to learn.
  • Build and maintain Developer tooling: Actively contribute to the improvement of our developer tools like supersim and super-cli.
  • Build and Maintain public API/Services: Build tools like relayers, faucets, and specialized APIs that enable developers to build seamless superchain UX.
  • Community engagement: Interact with the developer community to gather feedback and share it internally to help drive product enhancements.
  • Internal collaboration: Work closely with engineering, product, and marketing teams across the organization to align on product specs and requirements and ensure our tools target the right use cases and personas.
  • Open source contributions: Prefer open source efforts, working in the open to improve the superchain developer experience.

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