Senior Software Engineer, Core
Stellar Development Foundationover 1 year ago
Base Salary
$180k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build key components of Stellar Core, the backbone software behind the Stellar Network.
- Develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies for developers and network participants.
- Design new architectures and subsystems with the CTO, engineering team, and open-source community.
- Write clean, maintainable code with careful edge-case analysis and future-proofing.
- Own core Stellar Core subsystems and help deliver critical product milestones.
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions and contribute to engineering best practices.
- Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks to scale the system.
- Author detailed technical feature and protocol RFC specifications.
- Work on peer-to-peer networking, processing performance, decentralization, node-failure resilience, incentive mechanics, formal consensus models, verification, simulation, and distributed and multicore scalability.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience developing software on a team.
- BS or MS in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
- Production experience writing modern C++ or Rust.
- Strong understanding of software design patterns and reusable, extensible, modular components.
- Experience with performance debugging and benchmarking.
- Ability to communicate effectively and lead technical discussions during design and code review.
- Knowledge of development best practices and development tools.
- Bonus: direct experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
- Bonus: curiosity about blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies and understanding of their fundamentals.
Benefits
- Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage, with most plans covered at 100% for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off and 15 company holidays, including a company-wide holiday break.
- Paid parental leave for all parents and paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents.
- Gym reimbursement of $80 per month.
- Life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance up to $50,000.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) with a 4% employer match.
- Health and dependent care FSA accounts.
- Commuter benefits with a $250 monthly employer contribution.
- Health Savings Account with a monthly employer contribution.
- Family-building benefits through Kindbody.
- Wellbeing benefits through One Medical, Rightway, and Headspace.
- Learning and development budget of $1,500 per year.
- Daily lunch and snacks in the office.
- Company retreats.
- Hybrid work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
About 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.