Staff Software Engineer, Solana Staking Protocol

Overview

Staff Software Engineer serving as the technical authority for Solana staking, owning long-term strategy, validator operations, staking integrations, and protocol evolution.

What you'll do

• Own multi-year technical strategy for Solana staking across validator performance, protocol participation, and product integration.
• Lead validator optimization for vote accuracy, block production, MEV strategies, commission tuning, and stake distribution.
• Evaluate Solana runtime changes, consensus developments, validator clients, and SIMD proposals.
• Architect scalable staking integrations with Retail and Institutional Staking teams.
• Represent Coinbase through ecosystem relationships, protocol governance, and conference speaking.
• Build validator infrastructure for monitoring, automation, and reliability.
• Mentor IC4-IC5 engineers on Solana-specific expertise.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Extensive hands-on Solana protocol experience at source-code level.
• Production proficiency in Rust and/or Go.
• Experience operating complex distributed infrastructure at scale.
• Established Solana ecosystem relationships and public speaking or governance experience.
• Ability to define multi-quarter strategies and align cross-functional stakeholders.
• Familiarity with liquid staking, stake pools, restaking, or comparative proof-of-stake protocols.

Details

• Remote in the USA.
• Quarterly in-person working sessions are expected.
• Annual base salary: $218,025-$256,500 USD, excluding equity and bonus.