Jobs at Stellar Development Foundation

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.

Responsible for leading the Account Management team, driving blockchain adoption in financial services, managing relationships with key partners, and developing strategic market insights.

Design and build the public API layer, manage the transaction lifecycle, develop indexers, and implement analytics pipelines for robust production infrastructure.

Oversee capital deployment, market operations, risk management, and DeFi engagements. Lead negotiations, perform asset research, and report on performance for a digital asset ecosystem.

Oversee capital deployment, risk management, and market operations in the blockchain ecosystem. Lead strategy execution, partnership negotiations, and compliance reporting for DeFi activities.

The Backend Engineer will design and build public APIs, manage transaction lifecycles, and create a data backend for the Stellar ecosystem.

The Director of Account Management will lead the account management team, manage key partner relationships, drive ecosystem growth, and provide market insights, while ensuring operational excellence and educating stakeholders about blockchain technology.

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.

The Director of Research will lead the research agenda at SDF, fostering collaboration with academic and industry partners, overseeing research efforts, building a team, and translating research outcomes into practical impacts.

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.

Lead and scale Stellar's Africa presence by defining strategy, executing in-market programs across five hub markets, building high-value fintech and institutional partnerships, driving integrations and network volume, cultivating incubator pipelines, and representing SDF at events. Serve as regional champion, manage pipeline data in HubSpot/Airtable, and produce post-visit content to grow the African Stellar ecosystem.

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.

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.

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.

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.