Summary

We're looking for an engineering manager with experience building out a detection and response (D&R) team to play a crucial role in developing and securing the Optimism Collective's blockchain infrastructure. As the D&R manager at OP Labs, you'll lead the design, implementation, and execution of monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes that form a critical part of the Superchain’s security posture.

What are the role responsibilities?

1. Build out a dedicated D&R team responsible for monitoring Superchain smart contracts and infrastructure.
2. Develop and maintain a robust monitoring and alerting framework for the Superchain, enabling developers to easily stand up monitoring and ensuring coverage of critical contracts.
3. Establish a clear incident response program (including runbooks, escalation paths, and SLAs) that both OP Labs and other core developers can follow.
4. Coordinate cross-functional security drills (e.g., tabletop exercises) on a quarterly basis to validate and improve the organization’s readiness and response posture.

What skills do you bring?

1. A track record of building and managing high-performing teams.
2. Expertise in D&R tooling, both building in-house tooling and integrating with tools like Grafana and Opsgenie.
3. Strong communication skills, to enable other teams and coordinate drills.
4. Understanding of threat modeling, to identify the highest leverage monitors.
5. Ability to plan projects, and set OKRs and measurable outcomes for the team.

Skills

• Communications Skills
• Development
• Software Engineering
• Team Collaboration