Security Lead, Web3
Aptos Foundation
CloudWeb3
Developer Tooling Coordinator
Ethereum Foundation
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
JavaScriptSolidityWeb3
About the role
- The Ethereum Foundation is a global non-profit dedicated to supporting Ethereum’s long-term success.
- The EF builds and funds developer tooling at all levels of the stack, from languages and compilers to libraries to interact with the chain.
- As Developer Tooling Coordinator, you will help drive strategic technical decisions that shape Ethereum's developer ecosystem.
- This is a technical leadership role that blends hands-on development expertise with strategic planning and resource coordination.
- You'll help tackle critical strategic questions that require deep technical expertise, including: What should our strategy be around language support? How do we balance supporting legacy projects vs. newer promising experiments? What tools should the EF develop internally vs. rely on others? How should AI-assisted development reshape our tooling priorities and what new developer experiences should we enable?
- This role requires someone who can spot emerging trends, contribute to opinionated technical decisions based on leading indicators, and work collaboratively across teams—from diving deep into specific codebases to coordinating with EF leadership on grants and broader support strategy.
- The work environment is non-traditional—remote with optional offices; travel to Devcon/Devconnect; pseudonym work with KYC.
Requirements
- To excel in this role, you should have extensive hands-on experience building on Ethereum—whether smart contracts, dApps, infrastructure, or developer tools—and strong, well-informed opinions about how the ecosystem should evolve.
- Ideal candidates have worked across multiple layers: smart contract development (Solidity/Vyper), client libraries (ethers.js, web3.py, etc.), infrastructure tooling (testing frameworks, deployment tools), or protocol-level work. You should understand the pain points developers face because you've felt them yourself.
- We're looking for someone who can seamlessly move between strategic discussions and diving deep into codebases. You should be comfortable reviewing implementations, contributing code, and helping make technical architecture decisions based on both quantitative metrics and technical intuition.
- Bonus points if you have experience managing resource allocation tradeoffs, leading technical initiatives across teams, or successfully identifying and acting on emerging technology trends before they become mainstream.
