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Staff Engineer, Solana (Rust)

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12 Locations
Senior level
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12 Locations
Senior level
As a Staff Engineer at Chainlink Labs, you will lead the integration into the Solana ecosystem, focusing on smart contract development. You will develop scalable and secure software, solve complex problems, and ensure security measures are embedded in the systems you create, while collaborating with a team of experienced engineers.
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About Us 

Chainlink Labs is the primary contributing developer of Chainlink, the decentralized computing platform powering the verifiable web. Chainlink is the industry-standard platform for providing access to real-world data, offchain computation, and secure cross-chain interoperability across any blockchain. Chainlink Labs helps power verifiable applications for banking, DeFi, global trade, and gaming by collaborating with some of the world’s largest financial institutions, notably Swift, DTCC, and ANZ. Chainlink Labs also works with top Web3 teams, including Aave, Compound, GMX, Maker, and Synthetix. Chainlink Labs was ranked in Newsweek’s 100 Most Loved Workplaces 2023 in both the United States and United Kingdom.

About The Role

As a Staff Engineer working on Chainlink, you will lead our integration into the Solana ecosystem. In this role, you will be responsible for Smart Contract Development. You’ll collaborate with an experienced technical team of other senior engineers, distributed systems computing experts, and security experts, who are all committed to building world-changing decentralized infrastructure. You’ll develop and build highly scalable, secure, and reliable software that will change the way smart contracts function at a fundamental level.

Your Impact:

  • Developing systems that protect Chainlink, its partners, and users

  • Solving complex problems across various Chainlink product verticals 

  • Helping with the deployment and planning of related security infrastructure

  • Engaging with other teams and product owners to advise and help build in security from the start.

Requirements:

  • 1+ years of Solana smart contract development experience using Rust

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent experience

  • 7-10+ years of development experience

  • One of: Experience in Blockchain research (relevant areas include but are not limited to Distributed Systems, Smart Contracts, Formal Methods, Verification) OR Experience building security software, securing enterprise systems, or working in a security related function.

Preferred Requirements:

  • Experience writing/auditing Solidity smart contracts

  • Experience working on open source software with a GitHub history to prove it

  • Experience running infrastructure

  • Knowledge of infrastructure security and cloud deployments

  • Experience writing Go software

  • Experience working with Ethereum-style JSON-RPC endpoints or equivalent for other blockchains

  • Experience with fuzzing or software verification

Our Stack:

Rust, Golang, TypeScript, Solidity, Postgres, Terraform, AWS

All roles with Chainlink Labs are global and remote-based. Unless otherwise stated, we ask that you try to overlap some working hours with Eastern Standard Time (EST).

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

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Top Skills

AWS
Go
Postgres
Rust
Solana
Solidity
Terraform
Typescript

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