Senior Backend Engineer, Nitro

The role

You will work on the core infrastructure of Arbitrum, the Ethereum scaling solution. The work covers complex distributed systems, performance and the security and scalability of Arbitrum, alongside research, product and blockchain engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• Extensive production experience with a programming language that supports concurrency (e.g. Go, C++, or Rust)
• Strong sense of ownership in your work, driving new and innovative solutions to complex problems through rigorous experimentation
• Always up to speed on the latest technologies
• Open, transparent and direct communication style, with experience working in tight collaboration with teammates
• Always open to feedback, new ideas and self-improvement
• Look for ways to help out beyond your immediate day-to-day work
• Significant contributions to the products you have worked on in your career
• Security-focused mindset, watching for threats and vulnerabilities in your code

Nice to have

• Familiarity with WebAssembly, particularly writing high performance and high security code in production environments
• Experience working with compilers, architecting systems and developing SDKs

Benefits

• Remote-first global workforce and NY office
• Professional reimbursement program (industry conference attendance, certifications and more)
• Medical, dental and vision coverage (US and some other countries)
• 401k retirement plan with company match (US only)
• Wellness stipend
• Home office set up and ergonomic equipment program

Before you apply

• This role cannot be performed in California or Colorado
• Be aware of fraudulent recruiter activity; to confirm an offer or whether someone is an Offchain employee, email jobs@offchainlabs.com

About the company

Offchain builds blockchain scalability and security products, including the Arbitrum stack that powers Arbitrum One. The posting says it is backed by $124 million in funding.