Secuirty Engineer, Critical Safety

Who are we?

We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a research group, we have sought to scale both its technology and values.

At present, the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this in the open (under an MIT open source license) because we believe in open source innovation and its ability to accelerate growth.

OP Labs contributes to the Optimism protocol, an extension to Ethereum that scales both its technology and values. Optimism enables orders of magnitude of improved performance and scalability to Ethereum while doubling down on its commitment to public goods.

The Optimism Collective leads the blockchain protocol landscape, dedicated to fostering a scalable and sustainable ecosystem. Optimism’s ethos, in sync with Ethereum's vision, tackles pivotal coordination challenges of the digital age. Optimism’s goal is to harmonize private incentives with public good, shaping a resilient future for the Internet. Optimism’s scope spans diverse areas like Gaming, DeFi, NFTs, and Enterprise.

Position Overview:

As a Security Engineer you will protect the OP Stack by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and threats through rigorous security assessments, threat modeling, design reviews, and code reviews. You'll collaborate closely with engineers across our stack to embed security best practices into every phase of development, from initial design through deployment and operations. By building and maintaining effective security tools, processes, and procedures, you'll improve our security posture to help safely and swiftly ship code.

We are an engineering company with an engineering culture and take security seriously. In this role you’ll have the support of the team and be empowered to do your best work.

What are the role responsibilities?

• Perform comprehensive security assessments and threat modeling on various parts of the stack.
• Develop secure coding standards, guidelines, and policies to ensure best practices are consistently followed.
• Be a security leader. Educate and mentor engineers on security practices, fostering a culture of security across the organization.

What skills do you bring?

• Expertise in identifying, understanding, and mitigating security vulnerabilities through threat modeling and security assessments.
• Experience shipping safety-critical code in a fast-paced environment.
• High agency. You will help identify gaps to determine security priorities, and proactively drive initiatives to address them across the organization.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate security risks and solutions.

What will you like about us?

• We take care of our employees. Competitive compensation, fully paid medical, dental, and vision, and a 4% 401K match—learn more about our benefits, culture, and all recruiting FAQ here.
• 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 varied backgrounds. We cherish our eclecticism and consider it a great strength.
• We’re fully remote, deeply engaged, highly skilled, and like to have fun.
• We think long-term. Our founders have been scaling Ethereum since 2015.