--- title: 'Engineering Operations Lead at LayerZero Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-operations-lead-layerzero-labs-vancouver-c45679bm1cd5' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Engineering Operations Lead at LayerZero Labs - **Company:** LayerZero Labs - **Location:** Vancouver, Canada - **Posted:** 2026-06-22 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/layerzerolabs/jobs/6092023004 ## Job description LayerZero The Future is Omnichain. Founded in 2021, LayerZero’s vision is to create a community of cross-chain developers, building dApps that are no longer constrained by individual blockchain capabilities. With LayerZero's simple, generic messaging protocol, builders will develop cross-chain dApps designed to unify the power of individual blockchains. We are funded by the best investors in the world including: a16z, Sequoia, PayPal, Binance Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Uniswap Labs, Circle Ventures, Delphi Digital, and many more. ## ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for an Engineering Operations Lead to join our Engineering team. This is a dynamic role that combines elements of operations, strategic support, and organizational management. You’ll play a crucial role in helping to streamline business processes, assist with key product launches, and manage the operational rhythm of the Engineering org. The Engineering Operations Lead is designed to be a strategic enabler for this mission. By owning the operational backbone of our Engineering team and serving as the key operator for the org, you will remove friction, improve execution speed, and ensure Engineering teams operate at peak performance. You will serve as the connective tissue between Engineering and its cross-functional partners, abstracting away internal complexity so the team can focus on what it does best: shipping. This is an operations and strategy role. You own the systems, data, and cadence that let the org run itself. Build the rigor and structure that scale with the team, not chasing individual tasks. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO Core Business Strategy - Strategic Advisory: Serve as a strategic advisor to the CTO, Engineering Leadership and Product Leads. Provide hands-on advisory across internal process design, team organizational op model, data insights and day-to-day operational decision making. You’ll ensure the team is executing on its strategic priorities throughout the year. - Data-Driven Insights: Deliver analysis that helps inform team performance, productivity metrics, weekly readouts, and key areas of optimization. - Priortization Framework: Build and maintain the frameworks that help Engineering focus capacity on the highest-impact initiatives and make clear, defensible trade-offs when priorities compete. - POKR Management & Tracking: Oversee and track Engineering OKRs, ensuring alignment with the company’s long-term vision and strategy; surface trends, flag risks, and keep priorities on course. Operational Execution - Operating Cadence & Delivery: Run the operational rhythm of the org including planning cycles, milestone & dependency tracking, and delivery visibility. Ensure commitments are clear and the team consistently hits its objectives. - Dashboards & Reporting: Build and maintain dashboards that make goals, progress, and delivery health visible to leadership and teams. - ENG Operations Management: Handle day-to-day Engineering operations, including Linear initiatives and projects, deadline management, and project prioritization, to ensure the team meets its objectives efficiently. You will own Linear end-to-end as the org’s source of structure for work management. - Process Design & Automation: Identify and close operational gaps across the delivery lifecycle through improved workflows and automation, building scalable processes from the ground up. - Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with other Operations leads and act as the operational bridge between Engineering and its cross-functional partners (Product, BD, Finance, Legal, Marketing). - ENG Ops Trainings: Develop and run training sessions for the Engineering team, empowering them with the tools and processes needed to succeed. ## WHO YOU ARE - 5+ years of experience in business operations, engineering operations, or a similar function. Ideally within a FinTech, high-growth tech startup, or Web3 environment. - Deep understanding of how engineering organizations run: operating-model design, prioritization frameworks, operating cadence, and execution systems. - Proven ability to build and improve operational processes from the ground up (SOPs, automation, cross-functional workflows). - Strong analytical skills with experience building dashboards, performance reports, and data-driven recommendations. - Excellent cross-functional communication. You thrive as the connective tissue between Engineering, BD, Finance, Legal, Product, and Marketing. - Highly organized, proactive, and comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership and ambiguity. - Hands-on familiarity with Linear (or a comparable execution / issue-tracking system) and modern operational tooling. - Experience supporting or partnering closely with executive leadership is a strong plus. ## Equal Opportunity Employer LayerZero Labs is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. LayerZero Labs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. ## About LayerZero Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: LayerZero Labs builds permissionless infrastructure for blockchain interoperability, enabling secure cross-chain communication and asset transfers. - **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage: Series B and later corporate round) - **Headquarters**: Vancouver, Canada - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Bryan Pellegrino (Co-Founder & CEO), Raz Zarick (Co-Founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Blockchain infrastructure, interoperability protocols, decentralized finance (DeFi) - **Target customers**: B2B – FinTech, banking, DeFi protocols, asset issuers, and blockchain applications. - **Mission or purpose statement**: Build technology that makes decentralization viable, scalable, and inevitable. Create “Better Money Technology” through permissionless, censorship-resistant, and immutable infrastructure. ## Products & Services - **[LayerZero Protocol](https://layerzero.network/)**: An omnichain interoperability protocol that allows low-level communication between blockchains, enabling cross-chain applications without trusted third parties. Type: Protocol/API. - **[Zero Blockchain](https://layerzero.network/)**: A heterogeneous blockchain that becomes more performant as more nodes join, scaling to 2M TPS per zone. Designed as the “last blockchain.” Type: Layer-1 blockchain. - **[Stargate](https://layerzero.network/)**: A fully composable liquidity transport protocol at the heart of omnichain DeFi, enabling seamless asset transfers across chains. Type: Protocol/DeFi application. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company). - **Key Metrics**: **Total Funding**: $350.8M (8 rounds). **Annual Revenue**: $2.2M (LinkedIn estimate). **Total Value of Assets Secured**: $75B+. **Historical Volume**: $200B+. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, FTX Ventures, The Spartan Group, OpenSea Ventures, Alameda Research, Tether (corporate round, Feb 2026). Over 700 partners in FinTech, Banking, and DeFi. - **Growth Signals**: 125 employees (+29.8% YoY), 19 active job postings, offices in Vancouver and New York City. Recent corporate round led by Tether (Feb 2026) signals continued investor confidence. ## Competitive Advantages - **Permissionless & Censorship-Resistant**: No single point of failure; valid transactions cannot be permanently blocked. - **Immutable Core Technology**: LayerZero’s underlying infrastructure cannot be modified, upgraded, or rolled back. - **Heterogeneous Blockchain Design (Zero)**: Scales throughput linearly as nodes join (up to 2M TPS per zone), unlike traditional blockchains. - **Proven Adoption**: $75B+ in assets secured and $200B+ in historical volume across hundreds of teams. ## Strategic Focus - **Growth Priorities**: Expand interoperability solutions for institutional finance, deepen partnerships with asset issuers and chains, and scale the Zero blockchain ecosystem. - **Recent Moves**: Corporate round from Tether (2026) indicates focus on stablecoin and real-world asset integration. Active hiring in engineering, business development, and product roles globally (especially APAC). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Mission-driven, decentralized ethos – “how we build is as important as what we build.” Emphasis on permissionless, censorship-resistant technology. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Hybrid model with physical offices in Vancouver (HQ) and New York City; many roles list specific locations. - **Engineering Excellence**: Tech stack includes Go, Rust, Typescript, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake, and blockchain tools. Engineering roles focus on protocol, backend, systems, and reliability. - **Notable Perks**: Work on cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure with top talent (former employees from Kraken, AWS, Meta, Coinbase). Strong growth trajectory (29% headcount increase) and exposure to high-impact DeFi projects. ## Sources 1. [layerzero.network](https://layerzero.network/) 2. [layerzero.network/about](https://layerzero.network/about) 3. [layerzero.network/careers](https://layerzero.network/careers) 4. [LinkedIn - LayerZero Labs](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/layerzerolabs) 5. 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