Web3 Startup jobs in San Francisco, United States
Job Title | Company Name | Salary | Location | Tags | Posted | |
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Stellar Development Foundation | $180k-230k/year | San Francisco, California, United States | Web3ResearchDeveloperNon Tech | 1d |

Senior Software Engineer
at Stellar Development Foundation
Feb 20, 2025

Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is an organization dedicated to advancing blockchain technology and fostering inclusive access to the global financial infrastructure. Established in 2014, SDF has been instrumental in the significant development and expansion of the Stellar blockchain network, a high-performance, open-source platform that supports developers and businesses worldwide. With a commitment to innovation, SDF is continuously growing its team to meet the evolving needs of the Stellar ecosystem.
SDF is notable for its mission-driven approach, aiming to create equitable financial opportunities through cutting-edge technological advancements. The team focuses on maintaining and enhancing cloud infrastructures, supporting development processes, and ensuring the robustness and scalability of their services. By leveraging various modern tools and methodologies, SDF remains at the forefront of blockchain innovation, committed to excellence and collaboration within the industry.
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.
In this role, you will:
- 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
Qualifications:
- 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 have:
- 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.
We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $180,000 - $230,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. In addition, we offer token-denominated grants along with the following perks and benefits:
USA Benefits/Perks:
- 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
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