Senior Backend Engineer, Rust

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

Join the Nitro team to build and operate Arbitrum’s core node software, focusing on Rust-based systems, distributed execution, and WASM tooling. You’ll tackle scalable backend challenges, optimize transaction execution and state management, and collaborate across researchers, protocol engineers, and product teams to advance a leading Ethereum scaling solution.

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Offchain Labs
Offchain Labs
3 months ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Rust

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Job Summary

Join the Nitro team to build and operate Arbitrum’s core node software, focusing on Rust-based systems, distributed execution, and WASM tooling. You’ll tackle scalable backend challenges, optimize transaction execution and state management, and collaborate across researchers, protocol engineers, and product teams to advance a leading Ethereum scaling solution.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and improve Nitro core node software powering Arbitrum
  • •Design and optimise systems responsible for transaction execution, state management, and network performance
  • •Scale throughput and improve the performance and efficiency of Arbitrum's core infrastructure
  • •Solve distributed systems challenges across a large-scale blockchain network
  • •Enhance reliability, observability, and security across critical infrastructure

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kWellness StipendHome OfficeOffsite

Key Requirements

  • •Strong proficiency in Rust with production-grade systems
  • •Experience building distributed systems and infrastructure
  • •Ability to own projects from design to deployment
  • •Security-minded with attention to vulnerabilities
  • •Interest in runtimes, WASM, and developer tooling
Experience:BlockchainCryptoWeb3Distributed systems
Skills:OwnershipCollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamwork
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustWASMWebAssemblyArbitrumStylusNode softwareEthereumDistributed systems

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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