Senior Backend Engineer, Rust

🕒 June 11

🏄 California, Colorado – Remote

🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Offchain Labs

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

₿ Crypto

🌐 Web 3

Crypto • Web 3 • Blockchain Technology

Offchain Labs is a venture-backed company founded at Princeton that specializes in developing blockchain technologies, particularly for scaling the Ethereum network. Known for its groundbreaking Arbitrum technology, Offchain Labs offers a suite of products aimed at enhancing Ethereum's capabilities, including Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova, and Arbitrum Orbit. The company also provides tools like Prysm, a leading consensus client for Ethereum, and Stylus, a programming environment for deploying EVM-compatible smart contracts. Offchain Labs focuses on creating innovative and accessible solutions for developers, businesses, and individuals to utilize Ethereum effectively.

📋 Description

• We’re looking for a talented engineer to join the Nitro team and help build the core technology powering Arbitrum, the leading Ethereum scaling solution. • Designing and optimising systems responsible for transaction execution, state management, and network performance • Scaling throughput and improving the performance and efficiency of Arbitrum's core infrastructure • Solving distributed systems challenges across a large-scale blockchain network • Enhancing reliability, observability, and security across critical infrastructure • Developing new capabilities for the Arbitrum stack

🎯 Requirements

• Experienced Rust engineer with a track record of building production systems • Comfortable working across distributed systems, infrastructure, and performance-critical applications • Motivated by solving complex technical problems at scale • Able to take ownership of projects from technical design through implementation and operation • Pragmatic, collaborative, and capable of making sound engineering trade-offs • Interested in runtimes, execution environments, WASM, developer tooling, and/or systems programming • Maintained a security focused mindset, always keeping an eye out for potential threats and vulnerabilities in your code • Nice to have: • Experience with WASM • Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure or smart contract platforms • Open source contributions within the Rust ecosystem

🏖️ Benefits

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