Senior Software Engineer

Stellar Development Foundation • San Francisco, CA

300d • $180,000 - $230,000

About The Position

Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. As a member of the Stellar Labs team, you'll have the opportunity to push the boundaries of blockchain performance. We are tackling hard systems problems across the stack, including databases, secure runtimes, distributed systems, and consensus protocols.

Requirements

• Experience developing reliable and easy to understand software on a team.
• A track record of building and maintaining large systems in modern C++ or Rust.
• An understanding of low-level details and the ability to write high-performance code.
• Enthusiasm about working on a small, growing team where you'll be given a lot of autonomy.
• You're open, empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner.

Nice To Haves

• A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent field.
• Experience in a computer systems research area such as computer networks, distributed systems, databases, or operating systems is especially encouraged.
• You have created or contributed to a project in the open source community.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable, high-performance systems.
• Work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on simplicity, testing, and benchmarking.
• Own core subsystems and help the team hit critical product milestones.
• Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices.
• Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications.
• Contribute to open-source software.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependants.
• Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both non-birthing and birthing parents, as well as up to 14 weeks of paid pregnancy leave for birthing parents.
• Gym reimbursement ($80 per month).
• Life & ADD (up to $50K).
• Short & Long term disability.
• 401K with 4% match.
• Health & Dependent Care FSA Accounts.
• Commuter benefits with $250/month employer contribution.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with monthly employer contribution.
• Family building benefits through Kindbody.
• Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace).
• L&D budget of $1,500/year.
• Daily lunch and snacks in office.
• Company retreats.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree