Matter Labs
Product Engineer, Forward Deployed
United States, Remote. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will be embedded with institutional customers to take Prividium from a signed deal to a live chain. You will design end-to-end solutions, build reference applications, and own delivery from initial discovery through production.
What you will do
- Work with customers to clarify needs and design solutions across authorization, data layers, integrations, and deployment.
- Make product decisions by investigating problems and recommending what to build or defer.
- Own delivery from first conversation through production, including integration code, permissioning, upgrade paths, and runbooks.
- Build working reference applications for use cases like collateral movement and settlement flows.
- Triage customer issues and diagnose problems in self-hosted environments.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation covering Prividium and hosted services.
- Work with Product, Sales, and core engineering on account depth and reusable platform capabilities.
Required qualifications
- A record of designing and shipping complete systems used by real customers.
- Product judgment and systems thinking.
- Ability to write, debug, and maintain production software.
- Fluency in a language such as TypeScript, Rust, Go, Java, C#, or Python.
- Experience owning and operating production software, including responding to incidents.
- Customer communication and independent judgment.
- Curiosity about the problem and the product.
- An understanding of how large organizations work, including documentation, identity, entitlements, enterprise authentication, networks, controls, and operational expectations.
Nice to have
- Startup experience
About the company
Matter Labs builds private cryptographic infrastructure that lets regulated institutions settle directly with each other. The company is a fully remote team of around 70 backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures.