Stellar Labs, Inc

Stellar Labs, Inc

Senior Software Engineer, Core

New York · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$280kDetected 506 days ago
RustC++Distributed SystemsCode ReviewExcel

About the role

  • Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system?
  • As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of problems focused on growing and scaling our global network.
  • You'll be playing with formal models and verification (consensus), simulation (confirm emergent ) in addition to typical scalability problems (distributed and multi-core).

Responsibilities

  • Design and build key components of Stellar Core - the backbone software behind the Stellar Network.
  • Design and develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies that empower our developers and network participants.
  • Collaborate on new architectures and subsystems, working alongside our CTO, our team of engineers, and our community of open source developers.
  • Own core subsystems of Stellar Core, and help the team hit critical product milestones.
  • Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
  • Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
  • In this role you'll be designing, building, and implementing changes to Stellar Core - the primary distributed system that is used for maintaining Stellar's ledger and obtaining global consensus.

Requirements

  • You have 4+ years of experience developing software on a team.
  • You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
  • You are knowledgeable of best practices and development tools and are passionate about technological innovation.
  • You have a passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.

Nice to have

  • You have direct experience with designing and implementing distributed systems.
  • You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems.

Compensation

  • We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $180,000 - $280,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

Benefits

  • Competitive health, dental & vision coverage with most plans covered at 100% for the employee + any dependents
  • Flexible time off + 15 company holidays including a company-wide holiday break
  • Generous paid parental leave for all parents, plus paid pregnancy disability leave for birthing parents
  • Gym reimbursement ($80 per month)
  • Short & Long term disability
  • 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)

Company info

  • Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • in, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law

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