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.

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.