About the Optimism Collective and Optimism Unlimited
The Optimism Collective is redefining power to elevate humanity by building a more equitable internet. Our vision for this citizen-governed network: a composable, unified constellation of blockchains that can support internet-level activity; powered by the MIT-licensed open source OP Stack.To date, the Optimism Collective is defined by its focus on scaling Ethereum and funding public goods. We’ve processed hundreds of millions of transactions and are responsible for the largest ongoing public goods funding program in existence. Optimism Unlimited is a subsidiary of the Optimism Foundation that focuses on supporting the growth, adoption, and governance of the Optimism Collective.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.
What are the role responsibilities?
A successful candidate in this role should excel in one or more of the following areas:
Own and deliver improvements to the Superchain’s Deployment Safety tooling and infrastructure, such as our superchain-ops and superchain-registry repositories, deployment tooling, deployment risk analyzers, and changes to the protocol itself towards safer protocol upgrades.Own and deliver improvements to the Superchain and OP Stack’s DevSecOps effort, including formal analysis, integration/invariant/fuzz testing infrastructure, and tools to enforce secure coding styles.Work cross-functionally with Security, DevInfra, Protocol and Ecosystem engineering teams at OP Labs to support smart contract security best practicesBasic Qualifications
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.Prior experience in deployment safety for a large protocol.Preferred Qualifications
Experience developing DevSecOps platforms for production-grade smart contract developmentExperience contributing to open source projects, ideally related to smart contract security, Solidity/EVM program analysis or smart contract operations platformsExperience breaking complex smart contract & client systems into modular components to limit blast radius of security vulnerabilities.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.What you'll like about us:
- 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 a variety of backgrounds and interests. We cherish our eclecticism and consider it a great strength.
- We have a transparent, feedback-driven and fun-centric culture.
- We are a team of builders—our founding team has been working on Ethereum scalability since 2015.
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply.
We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Optimism, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
