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Staff Software Engineer, Solana Staking Protocol

Remote - USAFull-timeStaff$218,025 – $256,500
Posted Jun 26, 2026Deadline: Keep Open
Job SnapshotActively hiring
LocationRemote - USA
Job typeFull-time
Salary$218,025 – $256,500
DeadlineKeep Open

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Experience level
Staff
Work style
Remote
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Salary
$218,025 – $256,500
Key skills
GoRust

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What you'll own

Own Coinbase's multi-year technical strategy for Solana staking, including validator performance, protocol participation, and product integration, and build production infrastructure for validator operations, monitoring and automation.

What they're looking for

10+ years of software engineering with deep Solana protocol expertise, production-level Rust and/or Go skills, and an established presence in the Solana ecosystem (relationships, speaking, governance).

Why this role matters

Coinbase runs one of the world’s largest Solana staking operations (~9.25% of staked SOL); this role drives yield optimization, cost efficiency, and product growth, directly supporting the company’s mission to increase economic freedom.

Best suited to

A senior engineer who can define long-term technical strategies, solve ambiguous large-scale problems, and influence both internal teams and the broader Solana community.

Fintech requirements

Visa sponsorship: No
Work arrangement: remote

About this role

Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase, we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Staking Platform team within the Platform group, you'll serve as Coinbase's definitive Solana staking technical authority, owning strategy across validator operations, staking integrations, and protocol evolution. Coinbase operates one of the largest Solana staking operations in the world, managing approximately 9.25% of all staked SOL. You'll combine deep Solana protocol mastery with hands-on engineering execution and external ecosystem influence to shape Coinbase's Solana staking trajectory.

What you'll do:

  • Own Coinbase's multi-year technical strategy for Solana staking across validator performance, protocol participation, and product integration, connecting engineering decisions to yield optimization, cost efficiency, and customer growth.
  • Lead the engineering effort to achieve industry-leading APY through validator optimization, including vote accuracy, block production, MEV strategies, commission tuning, and stake distribution tooling.
  • Serve as Coinbase's foremost authority on the Solana runtime, consensus mechanism, staking economics, and validator client landscape (Agave, Firedancer), evaluating protocol upgrades (e.g., SIMD proposals) and proactively positioning Coinbase for changes before they land.
  • Partner with Retail and Institutional Staking product and engineering teams to architect scalable staking integrations across Coinbase's product surface, while advising on non-staking Solana initiatives requiring deep protocol knowledge.
  • Represent Coinbase in the Solana ecosystem by maintaining relationships with the Solana Foundation, core development teams, and major validators, contributing to protocol governance, and speaking at conferences.
  • Build production infrastructure for validator operations, monitoring, automation, and reliability while mentoring IC4-IC5 engineers on Solana-specific domain expertise.

Required Skills and Experience:

  • 10+ years of software engineering with extensive hands-on Solana protocol experience, including deep familiarity with the runtime, validator mechanics, staking economics, consensus (Tower BFT), and the validator client ecosystem at the source-code level.
  • Production-level proficiency in Rust and/or Go, with deep experience building and operating complex distributed infrastructure at scale (bare metal, cloud, networking, observability).
  • Established presence in the Solana ecosystem with existing relationships across the Solana Foundation, core contributor teams, or major validators, and a track record of public speaking or protocol governance participation.
  • Demonstrated ability to define multi-quarter technical strategies, break ambiguous large-scope problems into executable plans, and drive cross-functional alignment with product, business, and executive stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with Solana's evolving staking landscape (liquid staking, stake pools, restaking protocols) or comparative PoS protocol experience (Ethereum, Cosmos).
  • Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.

Pay Transparency Notice: Base salary varies by location (see range below). Total compensation may also include equity and bonus eligibility, and benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)). 

 

Annual base salary range (excluding equity and bonus):
$218,025—$256,500 USD
  • Application Limit: Candidates may submit a maximum of 3 applications within a 6-month period.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer: Coinbase is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. Applicants with criminal histories will be considered consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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GoRust