Engineer

Engineer

Employment type: Full-time/Company: Soter Labs

Soter Labs runs end-to-end governance and risk operations for the Sky ecosystem, one of the largest decentralized capital allocation systems in DeFi. The small, senior team focuses on decision-making support, risk processes, and security/monitoring for Sky and its Prime model partners.

Responsibilities:

- Research and propose an approach for monitoring all smart contract types across the ecosystem, including L2 deployments
- Implement the monitoring framework and iterate with Sky Core devs and external partners
- Collaborate with risk teams to define response processes and operate/evolve monitoring over time
- Manage deployment and monitoring of vaults holding hundreds of millions of dollars
- Execute parameter changes driven by governance and take on additional projects as needed

Requirements:

- Eagerness to contribute to and grow within the Sky ecosystem
- First-principles problem solver who proactively identifies gaps and proposes improvements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with production EVM/smart contract work
- Solidity fluency and deep understanding of EVM security patterns (access control, oracles, upgradeability, cross-chain/L2 messaging)
- Comfortable owning high-value production systems where mistakes are expensive and irreversible

Nice to have:

- Prior experience with smart contract risk analysis in high-stakes environments
- Experience with L2 infrastructure (OP Stack, Arbitrum) and bridge/messaging security

Stack:

Solidity, Foundry/Hardhat, TypeScript, Tenderly, multisig-based ops (Safe)

Benefits:

- $120-200k base; bonuses paid in cash or SKY tokens

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