Senior Software Engineer, C++

Design and evolve Stellar Core, the distributed engine powering the Stellar ledger and consensus. The role focuses on scalable distributed systems, performance, decentralization, consensus simulation, formal verification, and multi-core optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and build key components of Stellar Core.
• Develop robust, scalable, and extensible technologies for developers and network participants.
• Collaborate with the CTO, engineering team, and open-source community on architectures and subsystems.
• Write clean, maintainable, future-proof code with careful edge-case analysis.
• Own core Stellar Core subsystems and support critical product milestones.
• Participate in code review, design, and engineering best practices.
• Investigate and refactor performance bottlenecks.
• Author technical feature and protocol RFC specifications.

Requirements

• 4+ years of software development experience on a team.
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Production experience writing modern C++ or Rust.
• Strong communication skills and ability to lead technical discussions.
• Understanding of software design patterns and reusable, extensible, modular components.
• Knowledge of development best practices and tools.
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking.
• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems is a bonus.
• Curiosity about blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies is a bonus.

Benefits

• Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible time off and 15 company holidays.
• Paid parental leave and pregnancy disability leave.
• Gym reimbursement of $80 per month.
• Life and AD&D insurance up to $50,000.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) with 4% employer match.
• Health and dependent care FSA accounts.
• Commuter benefits with $250 monthly employer contribution.
• HSA with monthly employer contribution.
• Family-building benefits through Kindbody.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• $1,500 annual learning and development budget.
• Daily lunch and snacks in the office.
• Company retreats.
• Lumen-denominated grants.