Jobs at Stellar Development Foundation

Design, build, and maintain Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain. Responsibilities include developing scalable network components, improving peer-to-peer and processing performance, strengthening resilience and decentralization, investigating bottlenecks, authoring protocol specifications, and contributing to architecture, code reviews, and open-source engineering practices.

Design, build, and maintain Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain ledger and consensus. Develop scalable, resilient components; improve peer-to-peer networking and processing performance; investigate bottlenecks; and contribute to architecture, code reviews, RFCs, formal verification, simulations, and open-source collaboration. The role requires production C++ or Rust expertise, strong software design skills, and ownership of core subsystems.

Manage partner integration programs for the Stellar blockchain network, coordinating engineering, business development, marketing, product, and account management teams. Own partner roadmaps, lead technical and business meetings, resolve dependencies and blockers, maintain program documentation, measure performance against OKRs, and establish scalable program-management processes. The role requires technical fluency, financial services experience, blockchain familiarity, strong communication and leadership skills, and willingness to travel internationally.

Manage partner software and product integrations with the Stellar Network, coordinating engineering and business stakeholders from launch through completion. Own partner roadmaps, dependencies, risks, milestones, documentation, and program performance. Lead technical and business meetings, establish scalable program-management processes, and ensure delivery against organizational goals. The role requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, technical fluency, and experience working with external partners in financial services and blockchain environments.

Lead and manage the Site Reliability Engineering team, establish vision, define processes for collaboration, design robust infrastructure, and mentor team members while ensuring service availability and system reliability.

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team by establishing the vision, mentoring members, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating on infrastructure and tooling.

Lead and contribute to product design across Stellar’s products, set design vision, maintain and scale the design system, mentor a designer, partner with PMs and engineers, use AI-assisted workflows, and run user research and usability testing to ship pixel-perfect user-centered experiences.

Lead product strategy and roadmaps across Stellar network areas (core protocol, payments, DeFi, developer experience, AI agents). Rapidly validate ideas using AI-assisted prototypes, work closely with engineering and design, engage users and partners, and ship high-quality products while measuring impact.

Founding Product Operations Lead to design and run the product operating system, standing up planning cadences, roadmap and execution tracking, PM enablement, and tooling. Improve visibility, automate workflows (including AI/agentic solutions), capture product artifacts and feedback, and partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale product processes without adding bureaucracy.

Lead product design across Stellar Development Foundation products as a player-coach: set design vision, contribute high-fidelity work, manage and mentor a designer, scale the design system, leverage AI-assisted workflows, partner with Product and Engineering, and run user research and usability testing.

Lead product strategy and roadmap across areas like core protocol, enterprise payments, DeFi, developer experience, or AI agents. Talk to users and partners, use AI to generate prototypes, partner with Engineering and Design to deliver and measure high-quality products, and balance near-term needs with long-term network health.

Stand up and own the product operating system and cadences for the Product organization: roadmaps, planning cycles, execution tracking, and PM enablement. Improve visibility, build feedback loops, capture high-quality product artifacts, and identify opportunities to automate work using AI and agentic workflows. Partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale a high-performing product culture.

Provide legal counsel for outward-facing marketing, communications, product launches, events, brand/IP, and partner initiatives. Review and negotiate marketing and partnership agreements, identify and mitigate regulatory, privacy, consumer protection, and reputational risks, support event and brand strategy, and build scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks to enable fast-moving cross-functional teams.

Provide legal review and counsel for SDF's outward-facing marketing, communications, product launches, events, brand/IP, and partner work. Draft and negotiate marketing and vendor agreements, identify and mitigate legal/regulatory/consumer protection risks, support event logistics and brand protection, and build practical legal processes, templates, and playbooks to enable fast-moving cross-functional teams.

Lead enterprise payments business development to grow monthly active accounts and payment volume on the Stellar network. Build and execute go-to-market strategies across B2B2B/B2B2C payouts, marketplaces, PSPs, and neobanks; manage strategic accounts and target lists; integrate RWA and DeFi opportunities cross-functionally; and close complex, high-value commercial deals while representing Stellar at regional and global events.

Lead business development to grow Stellar payments adoption and monthly active accounts. Build target lists, manage strategic enterprise and fintech relationships, close deals across payments, stablecoins, DeFi and RWA, and coordinate cross-functional execution to drive payment volume and wallet growth.

Design, build, and implement changes to Stellar Core while working on performance improvements, decentralization, and incentive mechanics. Collaborate on architectures and contribute to code reviews under the Stellar Development Foundation.

Design and develop key components of Stellar Core while collaborating with team members. Engage in performance optimization and ensure the system's scalability and security.

Design and build key components of Stellar Core, improve system performance, collaborate on architecture, and lead technical discussions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop key components of Stellar Core, enhance blockchain technology, and collaborate with engineering teams.