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 weāre looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help us build the Solana ecosystem. If youāre looking to join a fast-paced, problem solving environment in the center of blockchain infrastructure, cryptocurrency, and decentralized applications, then read on.
Job Summary
Responsibilities
šBuild, maintain and improve trading apis that surface realtime and historical price data across Solana venues (perps, AMMs, CLOBs, Props) in formats familiar to traders šBuild tools pertaining to transaction execution pipelines and transaction landing (Jito, Harmonic, Direct TPU, etc) šBuild and maintain proactive monitoring tools to transaction landing rates, shred delays, rpc errors and trader health šSupport infrastructure operations including co-located nodes, data warehouses and analytics for network and venue behavior monitoring šCreate technical documentation, guides and research content that demystifies the market structure of Solana for traders coming from centralized exchange venues and traditional finance šResearch and prototype improvements to execution quality including FBAs, streaming, shred distribution and more
Desired Background
š5+ years of experience in a technical role involving trading systems, market infrastructure, or protocol engineering šStrong understanding of transaction lifecycles, latency optimization, and execution quality in either crypto or traditional markets šFamiliarity with data APIs, real-time feeds and streaming protocols like gRPC and websockets šBuilt ETL pipelines and realtime data feeds with high levels of accuracy and uptime
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