LayerZero Labs - Staff Solutions Architect

• As a Solutions Architect, you are the technical owner of the customer journey from first deep‑dive through successful production deployment. • You will lead discovery, design architectures, build proof‑of‑concepts, and clearly explain how LayerZero fits into a customer’s existing stack (on‑chain, off‑chain, and AI/data systems). • You’ll work closely with our FDEs and Product teams to ensure what we propose is not only compelling, but actually shippable and supportable. • This is a hands‑on, customer‑facing role - not a pure slideware or support function. • Partner with BD 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 POCs and pilot integrations, often writing or reviewing code (e.g., smart contracts, backend services, or sample apps) 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 POC to production, ensuring continuity and a clean path to scale. • Advise on security and reliability for cross‑chain flows: failure modes, monitoring, incident response, and operational runbooks. • Are comfortable reading and writing code - ideally in TypeScript, Rust, Go, and/or Solidity - and can quickly understand someone else’s stack. • Have deep experience with integration architecture patterns and APIs (REST/gRPC/WebSockets, webhooks, event streams, OAuth/identity, etc.). • Bonus: have worked with financial services, trading, or other highly regulated industries and understand their risk, compliance, and integration constraints. • Equal Opportunity Employer