Senior Rust Protocol Engineer for Blockchain Infrastructure

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

OP Labs is building the OP Stack and seeking mission-driven contributors to ship production Rust systems and conformance tests.

You will own features through full lifecycle, build rigorous conformance tests, and collaborate across teams to improve protocol upgrades and performance.

We are remote-friendly with NYC as our center of gravity, backed by top investors, and we move fast to support the ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building production Rust systems for distributed networks.
• Strong knowledge of Ethereum (EVM, JSON-RPC) and protocol design.
• Experience with conformance testing and safe protocol upgrades.

Responsibilities

• Own features through full lifecycle from design to deployment.
• Build rigorous conformance and adversarial tests.
• Improve protocol upgrades, performance, and availability.
• Contribute to production-grade Rust tooling and code reviews.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to maximize impact.

Skills

Rust

Go

Ethereum

Distributed systems

Security

Tests

Tools

op-node

kona

Reth

Rust tooling

Job description

OP Labs is building the OP Stack and seeking mission-driven contributors to ship production Rust systems and conformance tests.

You will own features through full lifecycle, build rigorous conformance tests, and collaborate across teams to improve protocol upgrades and performance.

We are remote-friendly with NYC as our center of gravity, backed by top investors, and we move fast to support the ecosystem.