Senior Backend Engineer, Rust

Offchain Labs

Senior Backend Engineer developing and optimizing Nitro, powering Ethereum's leading scaling solution. Focused on distributed systems, performance optimization, and enhancing blockchain technology integration.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeRemote • California, Colorado • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsOpen SourceRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

We’re looking for a talented engineer to join the Nitro team and help build the core technology powering Arbitrum, the leading Ethereum scaling solution.
Designing and optimising systems responsible for transaction execution, state management, and network performance
Scaling throughput and improving the performance and efficiency of Arbitrum's core infrastructure
Solving distributed systems challenges across a large-scale blockchain network
Enhancing reliability, observability, and security across critical infrastructure
Developing new capabilities for the Arbitrum stack

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experienced Rust engineer with a track record of building production systems
Comfortable working across distributed systems, infrastructure, and performance-critical applications
Motivated by solving complex technical problems at scale
Able to take ownership of projects from technical design through implementation and operation
Pragmatic, collaborative, and capable of making sound engineering trade-offs
Interested in runtimes, execution environments, WASM, developer tooling, and/or systems programming
Maintained a security focused mindset, always keeping an eye out for potential threats and vulnerabilities in your code
Nice to have:
Experience with WASM
Familiarity with blockchain infrastructure or smart contract platforms
Open source contributions within the Rust ecosystem

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote-first global workforce + NY office
Annual company offsite + team onsites
Professional reimbursement program (facilitates industry conference attendance, certifications, and more)
Medical, dental & vision coverage (US + some other countries)
401k retirement plan + company match (US only)
Wellness stipend
Home office set up / ergonomic equipment program

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Hard Skills & Tools

Rustdistributed systemsblockchainWASMperformance optimizationtransaction executionstate managementsecurityinfrastructuresystems programming

Soft Skills

problem-solvingownershipcollaborationpragmatismtrade-off analysis