Backend Engineer
Drift Protocol is an open-source decentralized exchange on Solana offering cross-margined perpetual futures trading with advanced risk management.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
About Drift Protocol
Drift Protocol provides decentralized perpetual futures trading on Solana with cross-margin capabilities, advanced order types, and risk management features. It combines traditional finance market structure with DeFi composability, offering spot trading, perpetual futures, and yield generation through a single unified margin account.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own the developer experience around Drift’s Rust and Python SDKs, integrations, and backend tooling. Build reliable, well-documented, production-ready SDKs and tools that support developers, market makers, integrators, and ecosystem growth.
Requirements
- Strong Rust and/or Python coding experience focused on SDK or API development and design.
- Experience building developer-facing tools, SDKs, or backend libraries.
- Familiarity with blockchain or fintech systems.
- Experience with Solana or DeFi protocols is a bonus.
- Ability to communicate with and support engineers and external developers on SDK usage, debugging, and integrations.
- Understanding of integrations, CI/CD workflows, and reliability at scale.
- Self-driven, detail-oriented, and excited about developer experience.
Responsibilities
- Own the development, maintenance, and support of Drift’s Rust and Python SDKs.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to prioritize backend, developer experience, and integration projects.
- Build developer tooling, examples, and documentation.
- Keep SDKs synchronized with on-chain program changes and protocol upgrades.
- Debug and resolve issues from external users and internal developers.
- Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and SDK release workflows.
Benefits
- Work directly with Product and Engineering to help shape a leading DeFi trading protocol.
- Own high-leverage projects spanning backend and ecosystem growth.
- Competitive crypto-native compensation with base and token upside.
- Fast-paced, remote-first team with deep ownership.
