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. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.
The Solana Foundation Product team is responsible for working with internal and external teams to build tooling, infrastructure and products that help builders create better applications across the ecosystem. The product team works full-stack to find solutions to acute problems and find collaboration opportunities to build standards, working groups and provision grants where appropriate.
Solana Foundation is seeking a highly driven Rust Engineer to join our Product team. The ideal candidate is driven, product-minded and committed to finding a balance between quality and shipping. You will work with the internal product organization on building new scaffolds, templates and big product ideas we’re working on in 2025. As a small team within a larger org, we’re generalists who can slot smaller projects into a bigger picture.
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
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
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
Experience working with Solana RPCs, Parsing, Indexing and code generation frameworks
Understanding of AI Code development and review tools
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