This position is not for a role with OpenZeppelin. It is for a role with Forta Foundation.

Forta is a leading threat prevention network, leveraging advanced AI and machine learning to proactively detect and prevent threats. Spun off from Open Zeppelin in 2021, Forta has top tier backers such as a16z, Blockchain Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, and is securing some of the top projects in crypto.

What you'll be doing

In this role, you will play an essential part in building new components, communicating with our users to gather feedback, and working collaboratively with the rest of the team to make sure we solve important problems and provide a great user experience.

Specifically, you will:

• Collaborate with the development team to improve a cutting-edge blockchain exploit prevention solution
• Investigate new tools, products or technologies to improve the team's outputs.
• Support cross team issues to meet objectives.
• Identify problems in our product or platform & improves areas of the code they work on.
• Help define processes and best practices to continue to grow.
• Write and execute test cases to ensure the quality and security of the code.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the Ethereum ecosystem and share insights with the team.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to the overall improvement of the codebase.
• Proactively mentor others to develop in their areas of expertise and provide guidance on best practices and industry standards.

You should apply if you have

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Knowledgeable about Ethereum and EVM
• Experience with Go and Solidity.
• Experience with AWS services such as Cloudwatch, DynamoDB, ECS.
• Experience with Docker, ECS and Terraform
• Experience with OP Stack and Arbitrum works is preferred
• Desire to work with Rust.
• Strong desire to further your education about Ethereum and contribute to the blockchain space.
• Prior experience working remotely: strong personal organizational skills, a love for self-time management, and ability to work collaboratively with a team.
• Advanced English communication skills — all of our internal and external communication is in English.
• Bonus if Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field

Benefits

• Company in-person gatherings in different locations around the world 😎
• Fully remote work 🌎
• Flexible time off 🏝
• Paid parental leave 💙
• One time work-from-home equipment stipend of up to $500 USD 🪑
• Medical insurance coverage
• Learning & Development opportunities 🧠
• Work with a global team in a fast-growing industry 🚀

At OpenZeppelin, we are an equal opportunity employer and we value different perspectives. We are committed to building a diverse workforce. This includes but is not limited to gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, national origin and other characteristics that make each one of us unique. In this uniqueness, we find the most value. Come join us!

OpenZeppelin is one of the major contributors to the crypto open source ecosystem, providing open source libraries for Solidity, Cairo, Stylus, Polkadot, Stellar, and Midnight. In this role you will have the possibility to work with some of the most talented developers in the industry to create reusable building blocks for smart contract and dapp developers, and to help in our mission to protect the open economy.

What you'll be doing

As an Open Source Developer, you will join our team that works on open source libraries for smart contracts, as well as associated open source developer tools. This open source will extend the work already done in the widely used OpenZeppelin Contracts library. We are looking for developers who have strength in Solidity, Rust, or Typescript development and have deep knowledge of smart contracts and dapps.

In this role, you will play an essential part in designing and implementing new library modules, communicating with smart contract developers and blockchain network community members to gather feedback, and working collaboratively with other members of the development team to make sure our open source libraries and associated tools meet developer needs and expectations. You will be responsible for smart contract coding, testing, documentation, and security. You may also participate in open source tools development to assist developers using our library.

You have

• 2+ years of experience in software development.
• 1+ years of experience developing smart contracts (Solidity or other languages).
• Good understanding of design best practices and security in the Ethereum ecosystem.
• Prior experience working remotely: strong personal organizational skills, a love for self-time management, and ability to work collaboratively with a team.
• Advanced English communication skills — all of our internal and external communication is in English.

Nice to have

• Experience in Rust, Typescript, React.
• Experience contributing to open source projects.

Logistics:

Our interview process takes place on Zoom and consists of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call (45 mins)
• Team Interview (60 mins)
• Hiring Manager Call (45 mins)
• Paid work test (Lasting up to 10 days)
• Reference checks

Please let us know if you require any accommodations for the interview process, and we’ll do our best to provide assistance.

We are seeking a highly motivated, self-driven Software Engineer to augment our Security Tooling R&D Team inside OpenZeppelin. This role will help maintain and expand our current security tooling efforts and also support building out strategic capabilities for the future.

You will work closely with other members of the Security Tooling R&D Team to expand and create new tools to help humans reason about complex smart contract systems, automatically detect security issues in smart contracts, and visualize smart contract interactions and relationships. You may also help organize, index, and manipulate data relevant to blockchain security and automate processes that enhance the quality and robustness of our security services offerings.

You'll be primarily supporting existing software engineering efforts, but will have space and support to innovate as well. We work as a cohesive team, thinking outside the box and outside of current capabilities, to build smarter, more innovative tools to help protect the open economy at scale. Some, but not all, of these tools are, or are intended to eventually be, open source.

What you'll be doing

• Write static analysis rules to detect potential issues in smart contracts.
• Iterate tools, workflows, and scripts that support more efficient internal processes related to security services.
• Triage issue reports and feature requests across several codebases.
• Adjust backend code to support new features.
• Build out our tooling interfaces/frontends to expose new capabilities internally.

You have

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• Experience writing production level software in Python and/or Rust.
• Some experience with front end frameworks such as Svelte or Next.js.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills in a collaborative and remote team environment.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with and/or a keen interest in blockchain technology and related security considerations.
• Familiarity with writing smart contracts in one or more languages.
• Experience with frontend development.
• Familiarity with and/or a keen interest in low level parsing, ASTs, fuzzing, formal verification, zkp circuits.

Logistics:

Our interview process takes place on Zoom and tends to consist of the following stages:

• Recruiter Call (30 mins)
• Hiring Manager Call (30 mins)
• Team Interview (30 mins)
• Paid work test (Lasting up to 10 days)
• Reference checks