Solana Foundation is looking to hire a Technical Project Manager, Ecosystem to join their team. This is a full-time position that can be done remotely anywhere in the United States.

Solana Foundation - A non-profit organization dedicated to the decentralization, growth, and security of the Solana network.

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Blockchain Solutions Development

• Design and develop secure, scalable blockchain applications including e-wallets, crypto wallets, DeFi protocols, and tokenization platforms.
• Work with blockchain frameworks (e.g., Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, etc.) to build decentralized applications tailored to financial use cases.
• Write clean, efficient smart contracts and ensure proper testing and deployment using best practices.
• Optimize performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability of blockchain systems.

Technology Implementation & Innovation

• Evaluate and apply emerging blockchain technologies and frameworks to meet business needs.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to translate requirements into blockchain-powered features.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, technology stack selections, and the overall product development lifecycle.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices across the development team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Product, Security, and DevOps to ensure smooth integration and high-quality delivery.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and continuous improvement efforts.

Security, Governance & Compliance

• Ensure adherence to blockchain security best practices, including audits, encryption standards, and secure coding practices.
• Stay informed of relevant regulations and compliance standards in the fintech/blockchain space.
• Contribute to documentation and governance processes to maintain infrastructure reliability and regulatory alignment.

• Experience:
• Proven track record of leadership roles in technology, with a focus on blockchain, decentralized systems, and Web3 solutions.
• Expertise in building and managing fintech solutions, including e-wallets, crypto wallets, tokenization platforms, and DeFi applications.
• Skills:
• Deep understanding of blockchain protocols, smart contracts, and tokenomics.
• Strong knowledge of financial systems and regulations.
• Exceptional leadership, team management, and communication skills.
• Ability to foster collaboration between technical and business teams.
• Education:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Opportunity to lead in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Collaboration with a team of industry experts.
• Competitive salary above the market range.
• The chance to shape the future of blockchain-based fintech solutions.

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About the Role

As a Protocol Research Engineer at Raiku, you’ll dive deep into Solana’s consensus mechanisms, validator dynamics, and block-building edge cases to help push the boundaries of what’s possible on-chain. Your work will directly inform and evolve Raiku’s infrastructure — including ahead-of-time auctions, deterministic inclusion, and decentralized execution environments.

This role is ideal for an engineer who obsesses over protocol-level behavior, from slashing conditions and fork choice rules to novel token incentive structures and inclusion guarantees. You will collaborate closely with our core engineering team, lead technical research deep-dives, and shape future SIMD proposals and Raiku-native designs.

Core Responsibilities

Protocol Research & Development

• Analyze Solana protocol changes (SIMDs) and model their impact on consensus, block production, and validator incentives.
• Explore alternative leader schedules, transaction scheduling policies, and failure recovery mechanisms.
• Design and prototype changes to Raiku’s validator sidecar, ackermann-node, and execution environment logic.

Incentives & Economics

• Simulate and reason about token-level economics (e.g. fee markets, slot auctions, stake redistribution) in the context of Raiku’s architecture.
• Collaborate with the team on reward structures that align validators, apps, and execution primitives.
• Contribute to internal tooling for simulating validator behavior under new fee models or coordination layers.

Research & Thought Leadership

• Write internal memos and public-facing research exploring protocol edge cases, inclusion determinism, and priority fee market design.
• Lead technical discussions and workshops across the team and ecosystem partners.
• Represent Raiku in upstream governance and protocol forums (e.g., GitHub SIMDs, community calls).

What We’re Looking For

• Deep understanding of Solana’s architecture, consensus algorithm (Tower BFT), and validator mechanics.
• Proficiency in systems programming (Rust or C++) and experience working with validator or node clients (Agave, Jito, etc.).
• Comfort reasoning about distributed systems, forks, slashing, transaction lifecycle, and fee markets.
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, technical research — either internal design docs or public content.
• A rigorous, systems-level thinker who thrives in ambiguity and wants to help shape the frontier of internet-scale consensus.

Bonus Points

• Experience contributing to SIMD proposals or L1 protocol development (Solana, Cosmos, Ethereum, etc.).
• Familiarity with execution environments (SVM, EVM, Move) or decentralized scheduling infrastructure.
• Interest in MEV mitigation, slot auctions, or validator tokenomics.
• Past experience in distributed systems research, zero-knowledge design, or compiler/runtime engineering.

Why Join Raiku?

Raiku is building a high-performance execution layer atop Solana that enables guaranteed transaction inclusion, pre-confirmations, and slot-level coordination — unlocking a new design space for ultra-reliable onchain apps. We’re backed by leading investors, deeply technical, and shipping fast.

• Work with a world-class engineering team building core infrastructure from first principles.
• Help define the next evolution of block production and validator coordination on Solana.
• Remote-first, async culture optimized for focus, ownership, and velocity.
• Competitive salary + meaningful token upside.
• Home office and workstation setup stipend.

Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer at Raiku

As an Infrastructure & DevOps Engineer at Raiku, you will lead critical engineering efforts that drive the performance and scalability of next-generation distributed systems. You’ll join a highly proficient team of core engineers, all of whom have contributed to foundational and novel infrastructure innovations.

We believe in hiring exceptional individuals who are deeply motivated by complex core infrastructure challenges and guided by a coherent system design philosophy that moves our industry forward. Expect frequent group discussions on architecture, design specs, and code reviews. We ship quality code quickly and often — and we are deeply committed to it.

About Raiku

Raiku is reimagining Solana’s transaction and consensus ecosystem by enabling validators to connect directly with purpose-built execution environments. Our platform delivers unprecedented performance, guaranteed transaction inclusion, and deterministic settlement for the next generation of internet-native applications. We unlock radical bandwidth and latency improvements by shifting Solana’s focus to efficient state verification — enabling high-velocity, reliable applications at massive scale​.

About the Team

Our entire platform is built in Rust, connecting Solana’s L1 with advanced L2 extensions and enabling deeply complex network interactions. Your primary focus in this role will involve Rust systems programming, infrastructure architecture (e.g., Kubernetes), and operational scripting across languages such as Rust, Go, and Typescript. Full-stack understanding — from bare metal to application interfaces — is critical to success here.

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, preferably within high-standard fintech, data, cloud, or DevOps environments.
• Senior-level experience as an SRE or Infrastructure Engineer with a strong Kubernetes background.
• Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform/Terragrunt) and infrastructure automation (Helm, GitOps).
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and PromQL.
• Experience with infrastructure and data security practices, including KMS and HashiCorp Vault.
• Ability to ship high-quality, opinionated architectural choices and uphold software best practices.
• Strong communication skills in English (both written and spoken).

Our Stack

• Infrastructure: AWS/GCP + bare metal, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, Prometheus/Thanos, Helm, HashiCorp Vault, FluxCD
• Languages: Rust, Golang, Typescript, PostgreSQL
• Smart Contract Development: Anchor, Solana Program Library (SPL)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating validators on distributed networks.
• Active engagement with the blockchain security research community, through open-source contributions, publications, or speaking at conferences.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages based on ongoing market analysis, including tokens.
• Remote-first culture with flexible hours — self-initiative and independence are highly valued.
• Work with highly talented engineers passionate about building the future of the internet.
• A collaborative and dynamic work environment that rewards individual ownership and impact.
• Opportunities for rapid professional growth within one of the most technically ambitious projects in web3.

Solana Foundation is looking to hire a Senior Data Engineer to join their team. This is a full-time position that can be done remotely anywhere in the United States.

Solana Foundation - A non-profit organization dedicated to the decentralization, growth, and security of the Solana network.

As a Senior Rust Core Engineer at Raiku, you will spearhead our engineering efforts, driving the innovation and implementation of next-generation high-performance distributed systems. You will work with a highly proficient team of core engineers who have all contributed to foundational and novel network components.

We believe in hiring only exceptional individuals who are highly motivated to work on complex core infrastructure challenges and are motivated by a coherent system design philosophy that will drive our industry forward. Expect frequent group discussions on architecture, new design specs and code reviews. We are all deeply committed to frequently shipping quality code.

About Raiku

Raiku is reimagining Solana’s consensus ecosystem by developing software that directly connects validators with purpose-built execution environments. We’re building institutional-grade infrastructure that delivers unprecedented performance, guaranteed transaction inclusion, and deterministic settlement for the next generation of internet-native applications. We unlock radical bandwidth and latency improvements by shifting Solana’s focus to state verification.

About the Engineering Team

As a team, we are building an entire platform written in Rust, which connects the L1 and L2s and allows us to create deeply complex scenarios and interactions with the running network. While your primary focus for this role is Rust and complex interactions with different components, you will likely also be involved in infrastructure (e.g., k8s), script writing, and supporting projects in other languages (e.g., Go). Working at every level of the stack is necessary to understand the big picture and how everything is wired together.

Responsibilities

• Highly motivated to contribute to our mission and be part of something bigger. Excited to work on projects that are ground-breaking and complex.
• Refactor, improve and lead software design implementation
• Communicate effectively with the team and document your code. It is also expected that founding engineers mentor less experienced engineers.
• Read and understand protocol specifications and be able to break them into issues and turn them into Rust code.
• Maintaining a large codebase with many components and keeping it well-designed, future-proofed, modular and highly performant
• Automate security testing processes and benchmarks, creating innovative tools and frameworks for continuously improving our systems.

What You’ll Bring:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, coupled with practical experience in blockchain systems.
• At least 3 years of experience in distributed systems, with a deep technical understanding of L1 and L2 architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, with at least 2-3 years of Rust experience.
• Strongly emphasising writing performant and secure code.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable distributed systems.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to anticipate and mitigate emerging security threats, leveraging a comprehensive understanding of the blockchain landscape.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active open-source contributions in core protocol engineering (such as Firedancer, Reth, Lighthouse, Geth, …).
• Direct involvement in the Solana ecosystem, with contributions to Solana’s runtime, scheduler, or other core systems.
• Experience writing Solana Program Library (SPL) and Anchor or similar frameworks
• Active engagement with the blockchain security research community, evidenced by contributions to open-source projects, publications, or presentations at notable conferences.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens
• Remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
• Work with team players who are genuinely excited about their impact and projects.
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment that fosters innovation and recognises individual contributions to collective success
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement within a rapidly growing technological frontier

As a Senior Rust Core Engineer at Raiku, you will spearhead our engineering efforts, driving the innovation and implementation of next-generation high-performance distributed systems. You will work with a highly proficient team of core engineers who have all contributed to foundational and novel network components.

We believe in hiring only exceptional individuals who are highly motivated to work on complex core infrastructure challenges and are motivated by a coherent system design philosophy that will drive our industry forward. Expect frequent group discussions on architecture, new design specs and code reviews. We are all deeply committed to frequently shipping quality code.

About Raiku

Raiku is reimagining Solana’s consensus ecosystem by developing software that directly connects validators with purpose-built execution environments. We’re building institutional-grade infrastructure that delivers unprecedented performance, guaranteed transaction inclusion, and deterministic settlement for the next generation of internet-native applications. We unlock radical bandwidth and latency improvements by shifting Solana’s focus to state verification.

About the Engineering Team

As a team, we are building an entire platform written in Rust, which connects the L1 and L2s and allows us to create deeply complex scenarios and interactions with the running network. While your primary focus for this role is Rust and complex interactions with different components, you will likely also be involved in infrastructure (e.g., k8s), script writing, and supporting projects in other languages (e.g., Go). Working at every level of the stack is necessary to understand the big picture and how everything is wired together.

Responsibilities

• Highly motivated to contribute to our mission and be part of something bigger. Excited to work on projects that are ground-breaking and complex
• Refactor, improve and lead software design implementation
• Communicate effectively with the team and document your code. It is also expected that founding engineers mentor less experienced engineers.
• Read and understand protocol specifications and be able to break them into issues and turn them into Rust code.
• Maintaining a large codebase with many components and keeping it well-designed, future-proofed, modular and highly performant
• Automate security testing processes and benchmarks, creating innovative tools and frameworks for continuously improving our systems.

What You’ll Bring:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, coupled with practical experience in blockchain systems.
• At least 3 years of experience in distributed systems, with a deep technical understanding of L1 and L2 architectures.
• Strong proficiency in Rust, with at least 2-3 years of Rust experience.
• Strongly emphasising writing performant and secure code.
• Demonstrated experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable distributed systems.
• An analytical mindset with the ability to anticipate and mitigate emerging security threats, leveraging a comprehensive understanding of the blockchain landscape.

Preferred Qualifications

• Active open-source contributions in core protocol engineering (such as Firedancer, Reth, Lighthouse, Geth, …).
• Direct involvement in the Solana ecosystem, with contributions to Solana’s runtime, scheduler, or other core systems.
• Experience writing Solana Program Library (SPL) and Anchor or similar frameworks
• Active engagement with the blockchain security research community, evidenced by contributions to open-source projects, publications, or presentations at notable conferences.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens
• Remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
• Work with team players who are genuinely excited about their impact and projects.
• A dynamic and collaborative work environment that fosters innovation and recognises individual contributions to collective success
• Opportunities for professional growth and advancement within a rapidly growing technological frontier

QuickNode is looking to hire a Senior Developer Advocate - Solana Ecosystem (EU) to join their team. This is a full-time position that can be done remotely anywhere in Portugal.

QuickNode - A crypto payments service that enables you to buy, hold, sell, swap, send and receive the major currencies.

Company Description

Phantom is revolutionizing the way millions of people interact with the crypto ecosystem. Our self-custodial wallet offers a seamless, unified experience for managing accounts and tokens across Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polygon, empowering users with a single, convenient solution. By integrating cutting-edge security features and launching innovative tools for an enhanced personalized user experience, Phantom is able to provide a next-generation, safe and easy to use self-custodial wallet for everyone. This strategy has allowed Phantom to achieve significant milestones including surpassing 16 million MAU’s, reaching #1 in the Google play store finance category, and consistently trending as a Top 50 app across all categories, right next to X, PayPal, Coinbase, and ChatGPT.

Role Description

As a Developer Support Specialist, you’ll be the go-to technical resource for developers building on Phantom’s embedded, mobile, and browser extension wallets. You’ll troubleshoot complex issues, guide developers through integration challenges, and advocate for improvements that enhance the developer experience. This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of engineering, support, and developer advocacy.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary escalation point for Level 2 developer support requests.

• Diagnose and resolve technical issues related to wallet integrations, blockchain metadata, and token display.

• Collaborate with internal teams to prioritize and advocate for developer-facing features and fixes.

• Engage with the developer community to gather feedback and foster positive relationships.

• Contribute to and improve technical documentation and resources for developers.

• Train and enhance support AI systems with accurate technical information.

• Customer/developer support ticket handling

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of experience in developer support, developer relations, or a similar technical role.

• Proficiency in React and React Native development.

• Strong understanding of blockchain technologies, particularly Solana and EVM-compatible chains.

• Experience reading and interpreting data from block explorers and blockchain metadata.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an emphasis on clarity and empathy.

• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage multiple support requests effectively.

Why Work with Us

Opportunity

We are a team of experienced builders in the blockchain and crypto industry. Our journey began from users seeking an easy, seamless path to accessing the crypto ecosystem. This passion fueled our exponential growth, allowing us to onboard over 16M+ active users in just over three years; with our user base growing weekly. Our dedication to a secure and seamless user experience has made us the leading wallet on Solana as well as our multi-chain approach enhances our platform's versatility, meeting the needs of a diverse and growing user base. By staying at the forefront of technology and user expectations, we continue to innovate and set industry standards on self-custodial crypto wallets.

There has never been a better time to work in crypto to help shape the future of innovation with a focus around the wallet experience!

• First impressions matter: Wallets are responsible for a users first impression with crypto and onboarding new users into crypto. By ensuring that a user has a great first-time experience with crypto, we can help supercharge the growth of the entire ecosystem.

• Make crypto easier to navigate: There is no easy way for a user to discover and navigate all that crypto has to offer. Wallets have a unique opportunity to help users not only onboard to crypto but also stay retained by exploring new things to do.

• We live in a multi-chain world: We currently support Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin with more networks to come in the new future. We are focused on creating a unified, multi-chain crypto experience for users.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) — 100% covered

• Stipend for your ideal remote set-up

• Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment

• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Monthly wellness benefit

• Weekly meal benefit

• Global off-sites

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

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Role

• Setup, maintain and monitor fleets of blockchain nodes for Nirvana’s global customer base.
• Build and maintain scaleable and flexible automations for running blockchain nodes and internal monitoring services.
• Set and maintain the best-in-class infrastructure practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align technical solutions with business goals and client needs.

Requirements

• Fluent in English
• In a time zone between PT to ET (UTC-8 to UTC-5)
• Proficient in scripting (i.e. Bash) and automation frameworks (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef)
• 4+ years of proven experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
• Experience managing and optimizing bare-metal servers.
• At least 1 year of professional experience in creating and maintaining blockchain RPC nodes (e.g. Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana etc.)
• Knowledgeable in deploying services reliably using tools like GitHub Actions, CircleCI, TravisCI, or Jenkins.
• Proficient with monitoring and logging tools (e.g, Prometheus, Grafana etc).
• Experience with Git-based systems for code and configuration management.
• Knowledge of various blockchain protocols and standards.
• Awareness of cybersecurity practices relevant to blockchain and distributed systems.

Nice to have

• Experience in creating automation tasks and internal tooling using Golang.
• Active contributions to relevant open source blockchain projects.
• Certifications for cloud providers, Kubernetes, or security certifications.
• Familiarity with a variety of blockchain environments.
• 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.