Product Engineer, Forward Deployed

As a Product Engineer, Forward Deployed at Matter Labs, you embed with institutional customers to take Prividium from a signed deal to a live chain inside their environment. You work with banks, custodians, and clearing houses moving real value on infrastructure built decades ago. Your deployments become part of how they operate. Reading through customer requirements to find the regulatory obligations underneath is the hard part of this job. You design the general solution that satisfies them for this customer and the next four, then put it in front of the customer's engineers as a firm recommendation they can push back on.

What you'll do

• Own deployments end to end: integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrade paths, and the runbook the customer's ops team will use
• Build reference applications that prove a use case, across collateral movement, tokenized deposit transfer, and settlement flows
• Carry the pager for Prividium and the services you run around it, including the night something breaks and the fix that stops it breaking again
• Work with the Head of Product and Head of Sales on which accounts to go deep on, and with the core engineering team on what graduates from a deployment into the platform

What you bring

• Production software you have owned and run, including carrying a pager for it
• Strong coding ability in TypeScript or Rust in your day to day, or deep fluency in a comparable language such as Java, C#, Go, or Python and the ability to pick ours up fast
• Serious time inside customer environments, whether as a forward deployed engineer, a solutions architect, or a technical founder

Nice to have

• Experience as a technical founder

Depth in one of two paths

Banking path: Experience building or integrating software for financial institutions or regulated financial infrastructure. Working knowledge of the systems banks run: core banking platforms, custody and key management, identity and entitlements, ISO 20022 or comparable messaging standards, enterprise auth and network architecture. Fluency with risk, compliance, controls, SLAs, and procurement. No blockchain experience required.

Crypto infrastructure path: Experience with Ethereum execution clients and node internals, with direct reth experience as a strong signal. Rust in production, since that is where the node work lives. Comfortable operating chain infrastructure in production: node topology, upgrades, sync and reorg behavior, monitoring. Experience with Solidity or readiness to learn it quickly and a working understanding of rollup and bridging mechanics. Able to explain cryptographic trust guarantees to audiences who do not have that background.

What we offer

• Competitive base salary
• Performance-based variable compensation and a long-term token incentive, both paid in ZK tokens, with new-hire token grants vesting over four years with a one-year cliff
• Fully remote, with roughly 10 to 25 percent travel to customer sites depending on which accounts you carry
• Shared on-call rotation covering Prividium and hosted services
• Working-hours overlap with North America and Europe time zones required

About Matter Labs

Matter Labs builds private cryptographic infrastructure that lets regulated institutions settle directly with each other without exposing data, ceding control, or waiting days. Their core product, Prividium, gives each institution its own private environment with independent governance and built-in interoperability across counterparties, asset classes, and jurisdictions through zero-knowledge proofs. Founded in 2018, backed by a16z and Union Square Ventures, the team is fully remote with around 70 people and eight years of production zero-knowledge infrastructure experience.