Staff Solana Program Engineer ($300 - $500k salary)

Who You Are

• Highly experienced engineer who has deployed production smart contracts or on-chain programs that operate at meaningful scale, with real users, sustained volume, and operational constraints
• Understand that building at scale is different from deploying isolated contracts - you’ve dealt with performance bottlenecks, edge cases, and real-world failure modes
• Thoughtful about security, adversarial environments, and long-term maintainability
• Able to work independently, take ownership, and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information
• Motivated by operating real systems at scale

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and maintain on-chain programs that operate under heavy real-world load
• Design and implement high-performance Solana programs in Rust that handle significant transaction volume
• Reason about program correctness, security, and upgradeability in a production environment
• Optimise compute usage, account layouts, and transaction flows for latency and throughput
• Work closely with backend and frontend engineers to design clean on-chain / off-chain boundaries
• Debug, test, and ship changes that go live quickly and are used by hundreds of thousands of users
• Own programs end to end: from design and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration