Blockchain Solutions Architect

The role

You will support Optimism's enterprise and institutional adoption by helping them evaluate, design, and deploy onchain systems using the OP Stack. You will partner with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to translate enterprise requirements into technical solutions.

What you will do

• Act as the primary technical counterpart for enterprise and institutional partners during evaluations, pilots, and integrations
• Lead technical discovery sessions covering architecture, performance, security, compliance, and operational requirements
• Design and support test environments to validate throughput, latency, and cost assumptions
• Respond to detailed technical diligence from banks, asset managers, system integrators, and regulators
• Translate enterprise requirements into clear technical feedback for product and engineering teams
• Help shape roadmap priorities related to institutional needs
• Support integrations with wallets, custody providers, cloud infrastructure, and system integrators
• Guide partners through OP Stack architecture, deployment models, upgrade paths, and operational best practices
• Help customers compare and migrate from private or permissioned experimentation to public or hybrid production deployments

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Pre-Sales role
• Background in blockchain infrastructure, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or financial infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Ethereum or EVM-based systems
• Strong understanding of blockchain architecture: sequencing, finality, rollups, smart contracts, and network operations
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and production deployment environments
• Ability to reason about performance, scalability, security, and operational tradeoffs
• Ability to explain complex technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Ability to interface with C-level stakeholders and navigate multi-party partnerships
• Strong communicator who can translate between business, technical, and ecosystem stakeholders

Nice to have

• Layer 1 or Layer 2 experience
• Experience working with regulated institutions (banks, asset managers, exchanges, payments firms)

Benefits

• Health, fully covered (100% of medical, dental, and vision premiums)
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• $2,000 annual wellness stipend
• $1,000 WFH setup stipend
• $1,000 learning budget
• Performance bonus and token grants
• Flexible time off
• 14 paid holidays
• Two Collective Pause weeks each year
• Four-week sabbatical after three years (three of them paid)
• Travel budget for remote teammates to join in New York
• Company offsites twice a year

About the company

OP Labs builds Optimism, a blockchain network that powers the next generation of financial infrastructure. The company has raised $178M from a16z, Paradigm, and others.