Senior Backend Engineer

Offchain Labs
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Communication","Ownership","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Teamwork"]

Join the Nitro Backend team to build and optimize the core distributed infrastructure powering Arbitrum, a leading Ethereum scaling solution. You’ll work on high-concurrency systems using Go, C++, or Rust, focusing on performance, security, and scalability while collaborating with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams in a remote-first environment.

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Offchain Labs
Offchain Labs
1 year ago

Senior Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Join the Nitro Backend team to build and optimize the core distributed infrastructure powering Arbitrum, a leading Ethereum scaling solution. You’ll work on high-concurrency systems using Go, C++, or Rust, focusing on performance, security, and scalability while collaborating with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams in a remote-first environment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Work on the Nitro backend to power Arbitrum's core infrastructure and contribute to distributed systems
  • •Optimize performance, reliability, and security of backend services used by the Arbitrum stack
  • •Collaborate with research, product, and blockchain engineering teams to ship features
  • •Maintain a security‑minded mindset, identifying and mitigating potential threats in code
  • •Contribute to architecture decisions and design of scalable systems

Pay and Benefits

Perks:MedicalDentalVision401kRemote WorkWellness StipendHome Office

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive production experience with a programming language that supports concurrency (e.g. Go, C++, or Rust)
  • •Strong sense of ownership and ability to solve complex problems through experimentation
  • •Up-to-date with the latest technologies
  • •Open, transparent communication style and experience collaborating with teammates
  • •Willingness to give/receive feedback and help beyond day-to-day work
Experience:BlockchainCryptoWeb3EthereumArbitrum
Skills:CommunicationOwnershipCollaborationProblem-solvingTeamwork
Tech Stack:GoC++RustWebAssemblySDKsCompilersArbitrumEthereum

Company Brief

Offchain Labs
Builds Arbitrum, a suite of Ethereum Layer-2 scaling solutions using optimistic rollups to enable faster, cheaper, and secure smart contract execution and decentralized application scaling.
Industry: Blockchain & Web3
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2018
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