Remote Senior Protocol Security Engineer, Interop & Deployment Safety

Description:

• The OP Labs security team is seeking a passionate and innovative protocol security engineer to lead the Superchain’s incident response efforts.
• The role involves building tooling and platforms to detect and respond to security incidents within the Superchain.
• Responsibilities include owning and delivering improvements to the Superchain’s Deployment Safety tooling and infrastructure, such as superchain-ops and superchain-registry repositories, deployment tooling, deployment risk analyzers, and changes to the protocol for safer upgrades.
• The candidate will also own and deliver improvements to the Superchain and OP Stack’s DevSecOps effort, which includes formal analysis, integration/invariant/fuzz testing infrastructure, and tools to enforce secure coding styles.
• The role requires working cross-functionally with Security, DevInfra, Protocol, and Ecosystem engineering teams at OP Labs to support smart contract security best practices.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 5+ years of experience in a software or security engineering role.
• A minimum of 3+ years of experience in protocol and smart contract security is required.
• Deep knowledge of Ethereum and the EVM is essential.
• Prior experience in deployment safety for a large protocol is necessary.
• Preferred qualifications include experience developing DevSecOps platforms for production-grade smart contract development.
• Experience contributing to open source projects related to smart contract security, Solidity/EVM program analysis, or smart contract operations platforms is advantageous.
• Candidates should have experience breaking complex smart contract and client systems into modular components to limit the blast radius of security vulnerabilities.
• Excellent written communication skills are required, with the ability to write clear and concise documents for team consumption and implementation.
• Attention to detail is crucial, with the ability to identify issues regardless of size and assist the team in triaging them.
• Candidates must demonstrate high agency, being able to proactively identify and fix issues without needing hand-holding.

Benefits:

• The position offers the opportunity to work remotely from anywhere globally.
• Candidates will be part of a passionate and innovative team focused on enhancing protocol security.
• The role provides a chance to lead significant improvements in security tooling and infrastructure.
• Employees will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally with various engineering teams, enhancing their collaborative skills.
• The position allows for personal and professional growth in the rapidly evolving field of protocol and smart contract security.