Solana Rust Engineer

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-Time
• Salary: Not specified
• Description: The Solana Foundation is seeking a highly driven Rust Engineer to join their Product team. This role focuses on building new scaffolds, templates, and big product ideas for 2025, working as a generalist within a small team to contribute to the Solana ecosystem's growth.

Requirements

• Experience:
  • 3+ years of experience with Rust or similar systems-level languages (C++, Golang, Java)
  • 1+ years of experience building Solana programs using Anchor or Vanilla Rust
• Technical Skills:
  • Demonstrated ability to build projects 0-1 and own the continued development 1-N
  • Deep experience interacting with the Solana Programming Library (SPL) and SVM (Solana Virtual Machine)
  • Active open-source contributions to projects within the Solana Ecosystem
• Bonus:
  • Understanding of AI Code development and review tools

Responsibilities

• Develop new on-chain programs for domains such as smart contract wallets, session keys, and recurring subscriptions.
• Support the product team in building holistic answers to pressing product problems like fair launches for tokenized IPOs.
• Build indexing and infrastructure solutions to track and monitor deployed programs.
• Own and maintain the continued development of the Solana Attestation Service (SAS), Kora (Gasless Relayer), and other tooling.
• Contribute to open-source projects such as Pinocchio, Anchor, Shank, Codama, etc.
• Assist in testing of grantee infrastructure and tooling for growth and engineering grants.

Company Information

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high-performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world.

Application Instructions

• Not specified.