engineering
Posted Jun 12, 2025Senior Software Engineer, C++
at Stellar3
New York, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- - 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.
- - Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF.
Requirements
- 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.
- As a C++ Engineer at Stellar, you'll be at the heart of it all—designing and evolving Stellar Core, the distributed engine powering our global ledger and consensus.
- You’ll tackle complex, meaningful challenges that push the boundaries of what’s possible in blockchain—boosting performance, strengthening decentralization, and designing incentive mechanisms that drive long-term network health.
- experience developing software on a team.
- - You have a BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field.
- - You excel in writing code in modern C++ or Rust in a production environment.
- - You have a solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular.
- experience with designing and implementing distributed systems. - You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems.
Experience
- You have: - You have 4+ years of
Benefits
- Bonus Points if: - You have direct
- We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $180,000 - $290,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.