Smart Contract Jobs at OpenZeppelin

About Us

Founded in 2015, OpenZeppelin is the premier crypto cybersecurity technology and services company, trusted by the most used DeFi and NFT projects in the world.

Our mission is to protect the open economy, safeguarding tens of billions of dollars in funds for leading crypto organizations including Aave, Coinbase, Compound, Ethereum Foundation, TheGraph and many others.

The OpenZeppelin team, spread across 30+ countries in the world, is responsible for creating the most popular Open Source Library for Smart Contract development in the world with over 15 million downloads! The expertise we've built along the years allowed us to uncover major security vulnerabilities for some of the most well known players in the market.

With the success of our products, our security audit work, and the open source educational efforts, we are setting the industry standards for secure systems of a hyper-fast-growing industry and we're looking for more folks to help us on our mission.

OpenZeppelin is looking for a Technical Editor Writer to work collaboratively with our security services team to improve the quality of our audit reports and create compelling written materials centered around the web3 and blockchain security space.

🚨 This is a contract opportunity where we expect you to work 15h-20h per week

What You'll Be Doing

• Spend approximately 80% of your time editing technical audit reports and 20% of your time creating new content and processes to strengthen our in-house writing skills.
• Perform final reviews, revisions, and edits of all smart contract audit reports to ensure that they are accurate, clear, consistent, and conform to the highest professional standards.
• Assist and train security researchers, many of whom are not native English speakers, to improve their writing skills in order to produce higher quality content.
• Establish policies and specifications around audit report formats, terminology, and writing >
• Host 1:1 and group training sessions to continuously improve the team’s writing skills.
• Continuously improve our internal writing and editing skillset through mentorship, initiatives, and general thought-leadership related to written English.
• Create new content to support security researchers, and the larger organization, such as technical documentation, training materials, knowledge-base articles, meeting presentations, and other content to help support our primary activity of smart contract security audits.
  
  

You have

• Professional experience as a technical editor or writer in at least one of the following fields: cybersecurity, software development, technical documentation, or the web3/blockchain space.
• Expert command of the (american 🇺🇸) English language, both oral and written.
• Strong knowledge of the structure and content of the English language, including the rules of composition and grammar and intimately familiar with the standards of professional writing >
• Comfortable participating in discussions with a group of highly technical subject matter experts and distilling complex technical concepts into easily readable language.
• Experience with GitHub.
• Proven ability to create standards, policies, and formatting guidelines around technical documentation and act as a champion to advocate for their adoption to the larger organization.
• High attention to detail and willingness to iterate over content until it has reached the highest quality possible.
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of a distributed team spread across many locations and timezones.
  
  

Nice to have

• Passion for web3 and blockchain technology.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity terminology, processes, and concepts.
• Experience with: LaTeX, CSS, HTML, JS, Python, Solidity, Linux.
• Professional experience with security audit reports or evaluations.
• Experience with graphic design.
  
  

🚨The benefits below don't apply for this job. The list below is for visibility purposes only so you're aware of the benefits we provide as a company to employees in case this role is converted into full-time.

Benefits 🤲

• Unlimited holidays 🏝
• Fully remote: your way of working 🌎
• Paid parental leave & benefits for primary or second caregiver 💙
• Team events: onboarding tour & company retreats in different locations around the world 😎
• Work from home office equipment stipend of up to $500 USD 🪑
• Monthly allowance for wellness activities 💪
• Coworking: access to a coworking space of your choice 👩💻
• Learning: technical training; spoken language lessons in any language of your choice (using Italki) 🗣
• Working with a global team in a fast-growing industry 🚀
  
  

At OpenZeppelin, we are an equal opportunity employer and we value different perspectives. We are committed to building a diverse workforce. This includes but is not limited to gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, national origin and other characteristics that make each one of us unique. In this uniqueness, we find the most value. Come join us!