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Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Solutions Architect to join LayerZero Labs, a company focused on creating an omnichain future. This role involves being the technical owner of the customer journey from initial deep dive to successful production deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- →Partner with Business Development and Sales to qualify opportunities, run technical discovery, and map customer requirements to concrete interoperability designs.
- →Design reference and bespoke architectures that integrate LayerZero with customer systems, including smart contracts, wallets/custody, trading or settlement systems, data platforms, and banking/payments rails.
- →Lead technical presentations, workshops, and demos, tailoring the depth to audiences ranging from protocol engineers to C-level executives.
- →Build and validate proof-of-concepts and pilot integrations, often writing or reviewing code to prove out patterns.
- →Document architectures, integration plans, and best practices, including sequence diagrams, threat models, and rollout strategies.
- →Collaborate with Integrations/Forward Deployed Engineering on hand-offs from proof-of-concept to production, ensuring continuity and a clean path to scale.
- →Advise on security and reliability for cross-chain flows, including failure modes, monitoring, incident response, and operational runbooks.
- →Stay current on Web3 trends and use that knowledge to shape customer strategy.
- →Gather structured field feedback and feed it back into Product and Protocol teams, influencing our roadmap and SDKs.
- →Contribute to external-facing content, such as sample apps, blog posts, talks, and reference architectures that help the ecosystem build better cross-chain systems.
Requirements
- ✓5–10+ years in customer-facing technical roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Platform/Infra Engineer, or Protocol Engineer.
- ✓Strong grasp of blockchain fundamentals and Web3 architecture, including consensus basics, L1/L2 and rollups, bridging models, wallets and signing, vaults, custody, and common DeFi patterns.
- ✓Comfortable reading and writing code in TypeScript, Rust, Go, and/or Solidity, and can quickly understand someone else’s stack.
- ✓Deep experience with integration architecture patterns and APIs (REST/gRPC/WebSockets, webhooks, event streams, OAuth/identity, etc.).
- ✓Ability to explain complex technical concepts simply, adapting your language for engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders.
- ✓Enjoy whiteboarding, system design, and storytelling, and can guide a customer from vague ideas to concrete architecture and rollout plans.
- ✓Comfortable in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment, juggling multiple high-stakes accounts at once.
