United States
Remote
Senior
Full Time
forward deployed engineerremoteblockchaincryptographyfinancial institutionssoftware engineering
Requirements
- •Production software you have owned and run, including carrying a pager for it
- •A strong coder. TypeScript or Rust in your day to day, or deep fluency in a comparable language such as Java, C#, Go, or Python and the ability to pick ours up fast
- •Serious time inside customer environments, whether as a forward deployed engineer, a solutions architect, or a technical founder
What You'll Do
- •Own deployments end to end: integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrade paths, and the runbook the customer's ops team will use
- •Build the reference applications that prove a use case, across collateral movement, tokenized deposit transfer, and settlement flows
- •Carry the pager for Prividium and the services we run around it, including the night something breaks and the fix that stops it breaking again
- •Work with the Head of Product and Head of Sales on which accounts to go deep on, and with our core engineering team on what graduates from a deployment into the platform
Nice to Have
- •Experience building or integrating software for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure
- •Working knowledge of the systems banks run: core banking platforms, custody and key management, identity and entitlements, ISO 20022 or comparable messaging standards, enterprise auth and network architecture
- •Fluency with risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, and procurement
- •Experience with Ethereum execution clients and node internals
- •Direct reth experience
- •Rust in production
- •Comfortable operating chain infrastructure in production: node topology, upgrades, sync and reorg behavior, monitoring
- •Experience with Solidity or readiness to learn it quickly and a working understanding of rollup and bridging mechanics
- •Able to explain cryptographic trust guarantees to audiences who do not have that background
Benefits
- •Competitive base salary
- •Performance-based variable compensation and a long-term token incentive paid in ZK tokens
- •New-hire token grants vest over four years with a one-year cliff
- •Fully remote work with 10 to 25 percent travel to customer sites
- •Shared on-call rotation covering Prividium and hosted services
- •Working-hours overlap with North America and Europe time zones
About Matter Labs
Matter Labs is scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge proofs to accelerate public blockchain adoption.
Berlin, Germany
100 - 250
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency