Blockchain Solutions Architect

As a Blockchain Solutions Architect at OP Labs, you support Optimism's enterprise and institutional adoption. This role sits at the intersection of sales, product, and engineering, helping institutions evaluate, design, and deploy production-grade on-chain systems using the OP Stack. You partner closely with Sales, Product, and Engineering teams to leverage Optimism's technology into institution-ready solutions, supporting technical diligence, performance testing, architecture design, and integration planning for large and innovative enterprises.

What you'll do

• Act as the primary technical counterpart for enterprise and institutional partners during evaluations, pilots, and integrations into production systems
• Lead technical discovery sessions covering architecture, performance, security, compliance, and operational requirements
• Design and support test environments such as devnets, performance benchmarks, and cloud deployments to validate throughput, latency, and cost assumptions
• Respond to detailed technical diligence from banks, asset managers, system integrators, and regulators
• Translate enterprise requirements into clear technical feedback for OP Labs product and engineering teams
• Help shape roadmap priorities related to institutional needs such as performance, compliance tooling, privacy, and sequencing models
• Support integrations with wallets, custody providers, cloud infrastructure, and system integrators including Fireblocks, AWS, and system integrators
• Guide partners through OP Stack architecture, deployment models, upgrade paths, and operational best practices
• Help customers compare and migrate from private or permissioned experimentation to public or hybrid production deployments

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Technical Pre-Sales role
• Background in blockchain infrastructure, cloud platforms, distributed systems, or financial infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Ethereum or EVM-based systems, with Layer 1 or Layer 2 experience strongly preferred
• Strong understanding of blockchain architecture including sequencing, finality, rollups, smart contracts, and network operations
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and production deployment environments
• Ability to reason about performance, scalability, security, and operational tradeoffs
• Comfortable explaining complex technical concepts to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Trusted technical advisor who earns credibility with CTOs, architects, and security teams at highly regulated institutions
• Strong communicator who translates between business, technical, and ecosystem stakeholders across varying levels of crypto fluency
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity in a fast-moving, frontier market and iterating quickly based on learnings

Nice to have

• Experience working with regulated institutions such as banks, asset managers, exchanges, and payments firms

What we offer

• Health insurance fully covered by OP Labs, with a range of medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• $2,000 annual wellness stipend
• $1,000 work-from-home setup stipend and $1,000 learning budget
• Competitive compensation including performance bonus and token grants
• Flexible time off with no fixed allotment
• 14 paid holidays plus two Collective Pause weeks each year, the first week of July and the week between Christmas and New Year
• Four-week sabbatical after three years, with three weeks paid and equity and tokens vesting throughout
• New York hybrid role, or location-flexible depending on team. Commercial and growth teams work from the SoHo office three days a week; engineering and technical roles are location-flexible
• Team travel budgets so remote teammates can join in New York, and company offsites twice a year

About OP Labs

OP Labs builds Optimism, a blockchain network that powers the next generation of financial infrastructure. Over 65% of Layer 2 activity on Ethereum runs through the OP Stack, used by hundreds of companies from Sony, Coinbase, Kraken, and Uniswap to ambitious early-stage builders. The company is backed by $178M in funding from a16z, Paradigm, and others.