Solana Program Engineer
Solana Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana network.
Zug, Switzerland
About Solana Foundation
Solana Foundation is a Zug-based non-profit that supports Solana network decentralization, adoption, security, grants, validator delegation, open-source development, and ecosystem growth.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You build and ship production-grade Solana programs in Rust using Anchor or Native, design DeFi protocols and onchain applications, reason about system trade-offs, contribute to open source and developer tools, and optimize programs for performance and constrained environments.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience building and shipping Solana programs
- Strong familiarity with Solana’s runtime
- Strong familiarity with SPL tokens
- Strong familiarity with PDAs
- Strong familiarity with Anchor
- Hands-on experience building or contributing to DeFi protocols
- Understanding of state compression
- Understanding of account metering
- Understanding of program optimization
- Familiarity with Solana-native DeFi protocols such as OpenBook, Jupiter, MarginFi, Orca, or Meteora
Responsibilities
- Build high-performance production-grade Solana programs in Rust
- Develop Solana programs using Anchor or Native
- Build DeFi protocols and onchain applications
- Take ideas from 0 to 1 and iterate with real users
- Reason about technical trade-offs and system design under constraints
- Contribute to open source projects
- Improve developer tools
- Build smart contract wallets and programmable access systems
- Build gasless relayers and session keys
- Build indexers and custom RPCs
- Contribute to Anchor and Pinocchio
- Develop token launch frameworks and fair distribution tooling
- Develop real-world asset registries and payment rails
- Develop DePIN coordination systems