Stellar Development Foundation
The Stellar Development Foundation is a nonprofit that develops and stewards the open-source Stellar blockchain, used to issue assets and move money across borders at low cost. It maintains core software, fosters ecosystem growth through tooling, funding, and partner integrations, and works with financial institutions and developers building on the network. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it focuses on real-time payments and financial access use cases.
Open Positions at Stellar Development Foundation
10 open positions
Build and scale Stellar Core, the distributed backbone of the Stellar blockchain, using modern C++ or Rust. You’ll own critical subsystems, improve network performance and resilience, and contribute to consensus, protocol design, and open-source development.
Join the Stellar Development Foundation as a hands-on Staff Software Engineer building and scaling Stellar Core, the distributed system underpinning the Stellar blockchain. You’ll work in modern C++ or Rust on consensus, peer-to-peer networking, performance, and resilient global infrastructure.
Build end-to-end wallet experiences for Freighter and related open-source libraries and services at the Stellar Development Foundation. This full-stack role combines scalable backend systems, polished client interfaces, and blockchain integrations.
Build end-to-end wallet experiences for Freighter and the Stellar ecosystem, spanning scalable backend services, user interfaces, and open-source libraries. Join a mission-driven team working at the intersection of blockchain and global finance.
Build the public APIs, indexers, data services, and observability infrastructure for a new high-performance distributed-systems platform. This is a greenfield ownership role for a backend or systems engineer with production-scale RPC experience and strong Rust or C++ skills.
Build the backend layer that makes a new high-performance distributed-systems platform usable by developers and partners. You will own APIs, transaction tracking, indexing, data pipelines, and production readiness from greenfield build through launch.
Build and evolve Stellar Core, the distributed engine behind a global blockchain network, using modern C++ or Rust. This high-impact role focuses on consensus, scalability, performance, security, and resilient distributed systems.
Build and evolve Stellar Core, the distributed engine powering a high-scale global blockchain ledger and consensus system. This role offers the chance to solve challenging performance, security, and scalability problems in modern C++ or Rust.
Build and scale Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain’s ledger and global consensus. This role combines high-performance C++ or Rust development with distributed systems, formal verification, resilience, and protocol design.
Build and scale Stellar Core, the distributed system behind Stellar’s ledger and global consensus. You’ll work on networking, performance, decentralization, formal verification, and resilient blockchain infrastructure using modern C++ or Rust.