Production Engineer

Location

Remote-International

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Remote

Department

Technology

Who We Are

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.

The Opportunity

Solana Foundation is seeking a broadly skilled Production Engineer. The core protocol running Solana has many client teams and contributing organizations. The goal of this role is to facilitate the technical collaboration across orgs. Any change to the protocol must be exactly replicated across clients. There are also downstream effects on infrastructure like RPCs, wallets and apps. There is ample opportunity for a Production engineer to work with infrastructure providers to create simulation clusters, fuzzers and test suites. Performance optimization is also top of mind in the Solana ecosystem. This role will be at the center of ensuring Solana is the fastest state machine for syncing data around the world as fast as the speed of light will allow.

To be successful in this role

You will:

• Lead the strategy on assuring robust releases across clients and infrastructure.
• Help coordinate organizations with a variety of skill sets and goals, from bare metal providers, core devs, network operators/validators, RPCs, and application devs.You will be in a lean team, but with a lot of resources around you. Part of the challenge of this role is figuring out what to build yourself, what others should build, and how all the pieces fit.
• You will be in a lean team, but with a lot of resources around you. Part of the challenge of this role is figuring out what to build yourself, what others should build, and how all the pieces fit.
• Perform a combination of infrastructure engineering, devops, test management, performance testing, and other tasks that will help ensure stable and performant releases
• Build libraries and tools that will help teams across all parts of the stack and help identify which parts of the stack are causing issues.

You ideally have:

• Made contributions to the Solana network, the core protocol or the application ecosystem
• Strong coding background and experience guiding technical collaborations across groups. Preferably proficient in Rust and C.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, both verbal and written, especially in developer platforms like github
• Knowledgeable about network testing frameworks and methodologies.
• You’re highly autonomous and can run this project with minimal guidance or structure.

Bonus points:

• Passion for realizing the possibilities of international open markets that Solana can provide
• Some experience on the application level and meeting customer needs.