Offchain Labs
Developing Layer 2 scaling infrastructure for the Ethereum blockchain
Company facts
- Founded
- 2018
- Employees
- 145
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Steven Goldfeder
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Series B · $120M · 2021
- Subsidiaries
- Prysmatic Labs, Tandem
About
Offchain Labs is at the forefront of blockchain innovation, dedicated to pioneering and advancing scaling solutions for Ethereum. Founded in 2018 by Ed Felten, Steven Goldfeder, and Harry Kalodner, the company emerged from deep research at Princeton University with a clear mission: to enable developers, businesses, and individuals to fully experience Ethereum's capabilities without compromise. Through groundbreaking technology, Offchain Labs is revolutionizing the Ethereum ecosystem with Arbitrum, its flagship suite of scaling solutions. Arbitrum utilizes an 'Optimistic Rollup' technique, which significantly increases transaction throughput and reduces costs while maintaining the robust security of the Ethereum mainnet. This allows decentralized applications (dApps) to operate with enhanced efficiency and scalability, paving the way for broader adoption and more complex use cases. The core of Offchain Labs' innovation lies in its commitment to research and development. The team continuously builds upon its foundational technology, introducing enhancements and new products like Arbitrum One, Arbitrum Nova, Arbitrum Orbit, Stylus, BOLD, and Arbitrum Nitro. Arbitrum One is designed for general-purpose dApp scaling, while Arbitrum Nova caters to applications demanding even higher throughput, such as gaming and social platforms. Arbitrum Orbit empowers developers to launch their own customizable Layer 3 chains. A significant milestone in Offchain Labs' journey was the acquisition of Prysmatic Labs in October 2022, the team behind Prysm, Ethereum's leading consensus client. This strategic move further solidified Offchain Labs' dedication to contributing to the core Ethereum infrastructure and its long-term success. By focusing on making blockchain technology more accessible, efficient, and powerful, Offchain Labs is actively shaping the future of decentralized systems and fostering a more scalable and user-friendly Web3 environment.
Head of Solutions Engineering
At Offchain, we aren’t just building products: we’re leading a movement. As pioneers in blockchain scalability and security, we're at the forefront of transforming how the world interacts with decentralized…
Senior Backend Engineer
At Offchain, we aren’t just building products: we’re leading a movement. As pioneers in blockchain scalability and security, we're at the forefront of transforming how the world interacts with decentralized…
Senior Backend Engineer
You will build and maintain core infrastructure for Arbitrum, solve distributed-systems challenges, and optimize platform performance, security, and scalability. You will support clients and internal stakeholders,…
Site Reliability Engineer
Offchain Labs is building a suite of scaling solutions for Ethereum. This includes Arbitrum, an Optimistic Rollup, that instantly scales apps, reducing costs and increasing capacity, without sacrificing Ethereum’s…
Business Operations Manager
You will drive operational excellence across business operations and security initiatives. You will manage complex projects, coordinate stakeholders, establish plans and timelines, track deliverables, resolve blockers,…
Senior PR & Communications Manager
At Offchain, we aren’t just building products: we’re leading a movement. As pioneers in blockchain scalability and security, we’re at the forefront of transforming how the world interacts with decentralized…
Head of Solutions Engineering
Lead strategic client engagements, develop bespoke solution concepts, guide customers through onboarding and implementation, stay hands-on with technical work, relay developer feedback into product roadmaps, shape…
Senior Software Engineer, Developer Platform
Join Offchain's Developer Platform team to build KMS, the key-management and signing service behind ZeroDev's embedded wallets. Own backend services, cryptographic recovery and trust-model machinery,…
Director of Accounting
You'll partner with the Head of Finance to build out the accounting department, ensuring accurate and timely financial reporting while implementing strong financial operating procedures. You'll roll up your…
Security Engineer
You will define and improve Offchain's cloud security posture, collaborate across teams to keep operations secure and compliant, design and harden secure infrastructure, automate controls, and shape the…
Head of Enterprise
You will develop and execute the commercial strategy for the platform, forge strategic partnerships across the Arbitrum and Ethereum ecosystem, and represent the product externally. You will work directly with users…
Security Engineer
At Offchain Labs, we are not just building products — we’re leading a movement. We are committed to creating a decentralized, secure, and transparent future through blockchain technology. Our mission is to push the…
Security Engineer
Secure and harden cloud and infrastructure deployments across AWS and Kubernetes environments, conduct security design reviews, threat modeling, and penetration testing, manage VPNs and secret management, automate…
Senior Backend Engineer
Work on the core infrastructure powering Arbitrum, solving distributed systems challenges, optimizing performance, and contributing to the security and scalability of the network. Collaborate with research, product,…
Site Reliability Engineer
Operate and scale production infrastructure with a focus on reliability, automation, and security. Manage Kubernetes clusters, build declarative Terraform infrastructure, design GitOps CI/CD workflows, implement…