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Protocol Engineer — Layer 2
Offchain Labs
New York, United States
Hybrid
Senior
Full-time
Job Description
Work on Arbitrum Nitro and Stylus — scaling Ethereum with optimistic rollups and WASM smart contracts. You will improve sequencer performance, fraud proofs, and developer tooling.
Requirements
• Strong systems programming in Go or Rust
• Understanding of Ethereum execution and rollup architectures
• Experience with performance profiling and low-latency systems
• Bonus: contributions to L2 or client codebases
• Understanding of Ethereum execution and rollup architectures
• Experience with performance profiling and low-latency systems
• Bonus: contributions to L2 or client codebases
Responsibilities
• Implement protocol upgrades and sequencer optimizations
• Debug cross-layer message passing and state transitions
• Support ecosystem teams integrating Arbitrum
• Write specs and participate in security reviews
• Debug cross-layer message passing and state transitions
• Support ecosystem teams integrating Arbitrum
• Write specs and participate in security reviews
Benefits
• $160k–$220k plus token allocation
• NYC office or remote
• Annual offsite and research time
• NYC office or remote
• Annual offsite and research time
Skills Required
Go
Rust
Layer 2
Rollups
Distributed Systems
Technologies
Arbitrum
Ethereum
Nitro
Stylus
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Offchain Labs
Verified CompanyOffchain Labs develops Arbitrum — a leading Ethereum Layer 2 rollup. The team builds Nitro, Stylus, and developer tooling that scales Ethereum for DeF...
New York, NY
51-200 employees
Infrastructure
Job Details
Category:
Infrastructure
Experience:
Senior
Type:
Full time
Location:
New York, United States
Expires:
Jul 21, 2026
Salary:
USD 160k – 220k