About the company
Solana is a high performance blockchain that can enable growing decentralized applications and systems to scale without sacrificing security. Solana Labs is the team that built the original protocol, and is building both the validator client and applications on top of the Solana blockchain; therefore the team is highly specialized, and we’re looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us build the Solana ecosystem. If you’re looking to join a fast-paced, problem solving environment in the center of blockchain infrastructure, cryptocurrency, and decentralized applications, then read on.
Job Summary
To be successful in this role
You will be: 📍Driving feature development: you’ll be the subject-matter expert for many infrastructure-related products: 📍Cross-chain messaging (e.g., bridges, oracles) 📍Offchain compute (e.g., verifiable compute, zero-knowledge primitives, attestations) 📍The proliferation of SVM (localnet, ephemeral testnets, Solana Permissioned Environments) 📍Supporting ecosystem teams and prospective builders: you will be the technical point-of-contact for connectivity and verifiable compute teams in the Solana ecosystem 📍Interfacing with developers: you will be collaborating directly with developers building on Solana to provide architecture review, collect their feedback, and inform protocol development.
You ideally have:
đź“Ť5+ years working in infrastructure- or platform-focused teams building out distributed systems at scale. đź“ŤExperience using Rust, C++, or other performant languages đź“ŤEstablished experience with infrastructure tooling like Docker, K8s, IaC and cloud infrastructure đź“ŤExperience writing complex SQL and building data pipelines and models, preferably in DBT đź“ŤExtensive experience designing and operating APIs đź“ŤA deep interest in the impact of blockchain technologies
