Senior Protocol Engineer

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September 2

🏄 California – Remote

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🗽 New York – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⛓️ Blockchain Engineer

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Solana Labs

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Blockchain • Web 3

Solana Labs is a company that focuses on bringing blockchain technology to the masses with an emphasis on speed, scalability, and energy efficiency. Solana supports developers and provides tools for a variety of blockchain applications, including payments, gaming, NFTs, DeFi, and DAOs. The company is renowned for its fast transaction speeds and low fees, making it appealing for both developers and users. Solana Labs actively fosters a global developer community through events like hackathons and conferences. Additionally, they aim to facilitate real-world applications of blockchain technology, as demonstrated by their innovations in decentralized finance and commerce. Solana's proof of stake network is recognized for its minimal environmental impact.

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

🌐 Web 3

📋 Description

• Solana Mobile: bring Solana and web3 to mobile (Saga phone, Seed Vault, dApp Store, Solana Mobile Stack, Seeker). • Senior Protocol Engineer to build and own Solana programs driving Solana Mobile’s ecosystem and developer adoption. • Build and ship new Solana on-chain programs for staking, voting and governance using Rust. • Create new APIs to securely interact with on-chain programs and integrate backend infrastructure. • Enhance performance, reliability and speed of web services for the mobile application store and core services. • Implement and operate automated web deployments in containerized AWS environments and participate in on-call rotation.

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency coding Rust, with track record of smart contracts in production. • Deep understanding of the Solana blockchain, its runtime and composability. • Experience building scalable and fault-tolerant backend systems, including HTTP REST APIs, web services and data storage. • Strong understanding of networking (OSI, NAT), computer science (common algorithms, space/time complexity), relational databases, common attack vectors (SQL injection, XSS), common engineering patterns (state machines, idempotency, optimistic locking) and cryptography. • Working knowledge of Unix/Linux - processes, system calls, shell scripting. • Experience working within a small team that independently translates product requirements into execution and results. • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or higher degree. • 3 years of work experience as Protocol Software Engineer. • 5 years of work experience as Backend Engineer. • Able to work remotely within US time zones. Office available in New York City. • Strong communications skills both written and verbal.

🏖️ Benefits

• Office available in New York City • Equal opportunity employer