Senior Software Engineer, C++

San Francisco, 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.

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.

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.
In addition, we offer lumen-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 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) - 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

Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.
This is your chance to work on real-world, high-impact distributed systems that are actively used by developers, institutions, and builders around the world.
Whether you're optimizing peer-to-peer networking, building resilience against coordinated attacks, or simulating consensus models to validate security and scalability—you’ll be doing it all.
If you're excited by formal verification, simulations, distributed systems, and multi-core performance, and want to help shape the foundation of an open financial future, we’d love to meet you. In this role,
you will: - Design and build key components of Stellar Core - the backbone software behind the Stellar Network.
- Write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on edge case analysis and future-proofing our work.
- Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks in order to continue scaling the system.
- Author detailed technical feature and protocol (RFC) specifications - we take design seriously, and we encourage everyone to be a part of our RFC processes.
- You're a great communicator that can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process.
- You are knowledgeable of best practices and development tools and are passionate about technological innovation.