About the Optimism Collective and Optimism Unlimited
The Optimism Collective is redefining power to elevate humanity by building a more equitable internet. Our vision for this citizen-governed network: a composable, unified constellation of blockchains that can support internet-level activity; powered by the MIT-licensed open source OP Stack.
To date, the Optimism Collective is defined by its focus on scaling Ethereum and funding public goods. We’ve processed hundreds of millions of transactions and are responsible for the largest ongoing public goods funding program in existence.
Optimism Unlimited is a subsidiary of the Optimism Foundation that focuses on supporting the growth, adoption, and governance of the Optimism Collective.
From the code to the values, we are Ethereum-aligned. We believe Ethereum has the potential to solve some of humanity’s most crucial coordination issues. Since our initial inception as a non-profit research group, we have have sought to scale both its technology and values.
At present the most pressing bottleneck to the growth of Ethereum is its performance and scalability. We are building the most elegant solution to this problem. We do this out in the open because we believe in open source and its ability to accelerate innovation.
Not only do we improve Ethereum's performance by orders of magnitude, we donate 100% of the profits generated from doing so to Ethereum public goods. We do this because we believe the future of the open internet is too important to be left to chance. By operating as a Public Benefit Corporation we're able to align private incentives with public good and create a positive-sum economic model that provides a sustainable future for the internet.
We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer, Developer Experience to join our growing Platforms team. The goal of the Platforms team is to build the best development experience in crypto to support both internal and external open source protocol developers. An ideal candidate is high-agency and excited about ownership of tooling and infrastructure.
What are the role responsibilities?
- Support developer velocity with an emphasis on protocol developer tooling and infrastructure
- Optimize continuous integration build and test times
- Work in public and across engineering teams to tighten the development feedback loop
- Ensure our development stack is delightful, reliable and built in the open supporting both internal and external contributors
What skills do you bring?
- Desire to build an industry-leading development experience for internal and external teams relying on our code
- Prior hands-on experience with or exposure to development of decentralized protocols
- Experience working with Docker and optimizing Docker builds
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience developing with Go
- Experience making software work on a variety of platforms and operating systems with emphasis on resource usage and monitoring
- Willingness to learn from and adapt quickly to the needs of your teammates in a fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with monorepo-based software development
What you'll like about us:
- We take pride in the accomplishments of our teammates and support each other in doing the best work of our careers.
- Our team is a diverse group of people from a variety of backgrounds and interests. We cherish our eclecticism and consider it a great strength.
- We have a transparent, feedback-driven and fun-centric culture.
- We are a team of builders—our founding team has been working on Ethereum scalability since 2015.
We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Optimism, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.
