Stellar

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. About the Project & Team: At the SDF, a small team of roughly 8 engineers is incubating a novel distributed systems prototype. Not a blockchain as you know it, something new. This is a rare opportunity for a zero-to-one build where much of the infrastructure and tooling does not exist yet. You will be building it. To be clear: this is not a maintenance role for our existing network, nor is it an academic research project. We are actively building a high-performance platform designed to handle real value. We operate as a fast-moving, highly technical team with no layers of management. You will work directly with the protocol architect and core systems engineers to take this completely greenfield project to production. If you thrive on the urgency of a new launch and want the agility of an early-stage startup with the stability of SDF, this is the place to be. About the Role: We need a Backend/Systems Engineer who owns the critical layer between our core infrastructure and the outside world. The public API, indexing, data pipelines, and everything that makes the system usable by developers and partners. Today, nobody owns this layer end-to-end. Pieces exist, but the JSON-RPC endpoint, transaction status tracking, analytics pipelines, and data services are a greenfield waiting for an owner. This role benefits enormously from someone who has already been through a complex infrastructure launch (like a testnet or mainnet). You know what breaks, what gets skipped and regretted later, and what "production-grade" actually means for infrastructure that handles real value. What the First Few Months Look Like: - Month 1: Understand the system architecture end-to-end. Get the full stack running locally. Own the JSON-RPC spec and start building. - Month 2-3: Working RPC endpoint. Submit a transaction, query its status, check a balance. Indexer serving the block explorer. Transaction lifecycle fully instrumented. - Beyond: Data pipelines, partner integrations, API hardening, load testing. Bake in the production readiness that comes from having done this before. In this role, you will: - Public API Layer: Design and build the JSON-RPC endpoints that external tools, SDKs, and wallets use to communicate with the core network (transaction submission, status queries, account state). - Transaction Lifecycle: Own the full path from client to consensus and back. Status tracking, error reporting, and timeout handling. - Indexer & Query Backend: Build the data backend that powers the block explorer, partner integrations, and historical state queries. - Data & Observability: Build out analytics pipelines (e.g., BigQuery population) and implement robust metrics and event logging using tools like Prometheus, Clickhouse, and Sentry. - Cross-Functional Impact: Work across service boundaries, getting comfortable reading code in components you don't own to understand how they behave. You have: - Strong systems or backend programming experience in Rust, C++ or both (our codebase uses both). - Proven track record of designing and building robust RPC/API services that handle real-world, high-scale traffic. - Deep understanding of database architecture, indexing, and query patterns. - You are a builder who takes ownership of production infrastructure, not just prototypes. Bonus Points if: - Prior experience building or operating blockchain infrastructure (nodes, RPC layers, indexers) in production. - Experience with a testnet or mainnet launch. We offer competitive pay with a base salary

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. Africa is not a future opportunity for Stellar — it is an active one. We have live integrations with fintech and payment companies across West and East Africa and a growing cohort of builders developing on Stellar rails, and relationships with some of the continent's leading financial institutions and ecosystem partners. We are now hiring a senior, Africa-based leader to own and scale this momentum — someone who can operate at the intersection of business development, ecosystem strategy, and institutional relationship-building, and who will serve as SDF's most visible and accountable presence on the continent. You will define how SDF shows up in Africa, shape the strategy that gets executed, and be directly accountable for the outcomes — builder pipeline, live integrations, institutional partnerships, and the long-term health of Stellar's African ecosystem. In this role, you will: - Own SDF's Africa business development effort — defining priorities, allocating effort across five hub markets (Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Ethiopia), and adapting the playbook by market needs and expectations. - Lead in-market execution across all five hub markets, including structured annual visits to each hub that deliver across a full engagement programme: conference presence, owned ecosystem meetups, top-tier builder roundtables, incubator and accelerator partnerships, strategic institutional meetings, and policy and regulatory introductions. - Build and close high-value partnerships with fintech companies, payment platforms, wallets, ramps, and developer teams building on Stellar, driving active pipeline companies through to live Stellar integration and sustained network volume. - Develop and manage SDF's institutional relationships across the continent — including major telcos (MTN, Airtel Africa, Vodacom), tier-1 banks (Access Bank, Equity Bank, Standard Bank, GTBank, KCB Group), and development finance institutions — identifying and progressing partnership opportunities that drive volume at infrastructure scale. - Cultivate relationships with Africa's leading incubators and accelerators — including iceaddis, iHub, Mowblox, LoftyInc, Tony Elumelu Foundation, and 88mph — to generate sustained builder pipelines and increase Stellar's visibility among early-stage founders making infrastructure decisions. - Serve as the internal champion and voice of the African market within SDF — translating on-the-ground intelligence into strategic recommendations, influencing product priorities, and ensuring the broader organisation understands the region's nuances, opportunities, and constraints. - Serve as SDF's primary relationship owner for Africa-based ecosystem partners throughout their journey — from initial engagement through integration and growth — facilitating connections across the Stellar ecosystem that accelerate partner success. - Build and maintain rigorous pipeline discipline across HubSpot and Airtable, ensuring integration status, relationship health, and strategic context are accurately captured and accessible to the broader team. - Drive post-visit content production in partnership with the marketing team — including trip reports, video, blog posts, and social content — that amplifies SDF's presence and narrative across African markets. - Represent SDF at flagship regional conferences and events, and own the design and execution of SDF's owned events on the continent, including builder roundtables and ecosystem meetups in each hub city. You have: - Bachelo

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. Marketing Counsel at SDF is a high-impact role at the center of how SDF shows up to the world. You will partner across Marketing, Communications, Product, Business Development, Ecosystem, Policy, and Legal to help teams move quickly while keeping external messaging, campaigns, grants, product launches, events, brand protection, and partner-facing work aligned with SDF’s legal, regulatory, reputational, and mission-driven priorities. This role extends well beyond traditional marketing review: you will advise on high-volume public-facing assets, strategic communications, marketing grants, major events, digital properties, brand and IP matters, and scalable legal processes that help SDF tell its story responsibly in a fast-moving industry. This is a rare opportunity for someone who wants meaningful ownership, close partnership with senior business leaders, and room to build deep expertise at the intersection of blockchain, payments, digital assets, advertising, consumer protection, and global public policy. In this role, you will: - Own legal review for SDF’s outward-facing marketing and communications materials across channels, including social, web, mobile, PR, blogs, digital ads, decks, FAQs, event collateral, scripts, product explainers, disclosures, and early-stage campaign concepts. - Advise Marketing, Communications, Product, Business Development, Ecosystem, Policy, and Legal stakeholders on public-facing content, campaign strategy, product messaging, partner marketing, and external positioning. - Identify and help mitigate legal, regulatory, reputational, contractual, privacy, and consumer protection risk in external-facing work. - Provide end-to-end legal support for marketing aspects of broader strategic business deals, including diligence, KYC coordination, drafting, negotiation, deliverables, and payment mechanics. - Serve as a legal partner to Marketing leadership on marketing strategy, campaign planning, thought leadership, strategic messaging, and cross-functional issues involving Marketing, Product, BD, Comms, Events, Ecosystem, and Legal. - Support SDF-owned and third-party events, by advising on event strategy, venue and vendor contracts, sponsorships, waivers, releases, collateral, activations, and time-sensitive operational issues. - Support SDF’s brand and IP function, including trademark portfolio management, brand policy questions, brand asset use, naming and rebrand initiatives, clearance coordination, contested IP matters, and brand protection. - Review and advise on product-related launch materials, webpages, explainers, FAQs, and announcements where product functionality, user understanding, external messaging, or legal sensitivity intersects with Marketing or Communications. - Help develop and maintain practical legal processes, templates, guidelines, playbooks, training, and intake workflows that allow teams to move efficiently while staying aligned with SDF’s risk tolerance and public posture. - Draft, review, and negotiate marketing, advertising, SaaS, event, vendor, sponsorship, strategic partnership, grant, and services agreements related to Marketing and other outward-facing initiatives. You have: - J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar. - At least 3 years of relevant law firm and/or in-house legal experience, ideally in marketing, advertising, product, media, technology, financial services, fintech, payments, blockchain, or digital assets. - Working knowl

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. SDF is hiring Product Managers to help shape the next chapter of the Stellar network. This is a generalist product role: depending on your strengths and where the ecosystem needs you most, you could own work spanning the core protocol, enterprise payments and tokenization, DeFi, developer experience and tooling, or the emerging surface of AI agents transacting on-chain. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with world-class engineers, designers, and ecosystem partners to take ideas from problem to shipped product. We are looking for builders who use AI extensively to accelerate their work — and who increasingly deliver working prototypes, not just specs. In this role, you will: - In your first 30 days: ramp on the Stellar network, our products, and the ecosystem; meet your engineering, design, and partner counterparts; and ship a first small improvement end-to-end. - Within 90 days: own a product area, build a prioritized roadmap grounded in real user and ecosystem needs, and establish a steady delivery cadence with your team. - Define and drive product strategy and roadmap for your area, across one or more of: core protocol, enterprise, DeFi, developer experience, and agents. - Talk to users, developers, and partners constantly, and translate their needs and pain points into a compelling vision and crisp, actionable requirements. - Use AI tools to accelerate discovery and delivery — generating prototypes, mockups, and working demos to validate ideas before committing engineering time. - Partner closely with Engineering and Design to ship high-quality products with urgency, and measure their impact after launch. - Balance the needs of the network today with the longer-term future you are building toward. You have: - 3+ years of product management experience shipping software products end-to-end. - A track record of using AI tools (e.g., Claude, Cursor, v0, and similar) to accelerate your work — including building working prototypes, not just writing specs. - The ability to translate user needs and pain points into both a long-term vision and near-term technical requirements. - Strong written and verbal communication; you can align engineers, designers, and partners around a plan. - Comfort with technical products and ambiguity; you operate from first principles with a strong bias to ship. - High user empathy and a high bar for quality. Bonus Points if: - Experience building on or with blockchain, crypto, or fintech products. - Experience with developer-facing products (APIs, SDKs, CLIs) or open-source projects. - Experience in payments, DeFi, or enterprise / B2B platforms. - You can code or prototype yourself (even lightly) and have shipped AI-assisted prototypes. - Experience in fast-moving, high-autonomy environments. - Knowledge of the Stellar network and Soroban smart contracts. We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $155,000 - $205,000 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

Are you interested in advancing open technology that supports equitable access to the global financial system? The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is expanding its scientific and technological research efforts and looking for someone to help guide that growth with purpose, depth, and a commitment to the public good. Since 2014, SDF has stewarded the development of the Stellar network, an open-source, large-scale blockchain platform that enables inclusive, efficient financial infrastructure around the world. SDF Research plays a critical role in this mission, focusing on both practical and long-term challenges in distributed systems, cryptography, mechanism design, and the broader societal impact of decentralized technologies. We believe open research, open standards, and open-source software are essential to building trustworthy and accessible systems. In this role, you’ll help define and grow a research agenda rooted in these values, working closely with academic and industry partners, guiding and supporting a team that brings together diverse technical and disciplinary perspectives, and contributing to the technical foundations that power a more inclusive financial future. This is a unique opportunity to apply deep research experience in a mission-driven environment where thoughtful, collaborative work has real-world impact. In this role, you will: - Shape the research vision: Define and lead a long-term scientific research agenda that supports SDF’s mission while contributing to broader conversations in computer science and decentralized systems. Identify both mission-aligned applied challenges and foundational open problems to guide internal research and community engagement. - Foster deep academic and industry collaboration: Build strong, lasting partnerships with top researchers, labs, and institutions. Support initiatives that lead to joint publications, open-source contributions, and shared advancement of knowledge—both within and beyond the Stellar ecosystem. - Balance innovation with exploration: Oversee a portfolio of research efforts ranging from mission-critical applications to blue-sky investigations in areas such as cryptography, distributed systems, and incentive design. Champion rigorous thinking that leads to practical outcomes and advances the state of the art. - Build and support a strong, mission-driven research team: Recruit and develop a diverse group of research scientists and applied researchers, from early-career PhD interns to experienced domain experts. Create a supportive environment where a range of perspectives, backgrounds, and research styles can thrive. - Translate insights into real-world impact: Ensure that research outcomes inform product strategy, ecosystem standards, and protocol development—helping strengthen Stellar’s role in building accessible, resilient financial infrastructure. - Engage with the global research community: Represent SDF at conferences, academic workshops, and standards bodies. Contribute to the broader discourse on decentralized systems and financial inclusion through publications, presentations, and thought leadership. You have: - PhD in Computer Science, Cryptography, Distributed Systems, or a related field. - 10+ years of research experience in academia (e.g., tenured or tenure-track faculty) or industry (e.g., senior research scientist or director-level role). - Strong track record of high-impact contributions, such as peer-reviewed publications, patents, open-source projects, or foundational technical work. - Demonstrated experience leading research programs or teams, including setting strategy and managing multi-year initiatives. Bonus Points if (optional): - Experience working in both academic and applied research settings, with an ability to translate deep technical insights into practical impact. - Familiarity with open-source software development practices and/or participation in open standards communities (e.g., IETF, W3C). - Proven ability to collabo

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. SDF is creating its first dedicated Product Operations role, and we are looking for an experienced operator to stand it up. As our founding Product Operations Lead, you will own the operational backbone of the Product organization — the systems, cadences, and standards that help our PMs, designers, and engineers plan, build, and ship consistently and at a high bar. You are a hands-on builder who works from first principles, and you are excited to bring proven product-ops practice to a fast-moving, mission-driven team — including identifying where AI and agentic workflows can change how product work gets done. In this role, you will: - In your first 30 days: learn how Product currently plans and ships, identify the highest-leverage gaps, and propose a lightweight operating model. - Within 90 days: stand up the core operating cadences (planning cycles, product reviews, roadmap and execution tracking) and define the PM tool stack. - Own and evolve the operating system Product uses to plan, track, and communicate work — roadmaps, planning artifacts, and execution tracking — in close partnership with Engineering. - Design and run lightweight operating cadences (planning cycles, product reviews, execution check-ins) without adding unnecessary process. - Improve visibility into priorities, progress, and decisions across the product organization. - Identify where automation, AI, and agents can materially change how product work gets done, and turn those ideas into adopted capabilities. - Build systems that capture and share high-quality product work (e.g., great PRDs) and decisions to raise the bar and accelerate learning across teams. - Be the internal voice of the customer and ecosystem: build structured feedback loops and synthesize signal into roadmap inputs. - Over time, own PM onboarding and enablement, and partner with Product leadership to reinforce a high-performing product culture (Product All Hands, summits / onsites). You have: - 6+ years in Product Operations, Technical Program Management, or a similar role in a fast-moving, product-led organization. - A track record of standing up or significantly scaling a product operating model from a blank page. - Strong systems thinking; you design operating models that scale without adding bureaucracy. - A scrappy, high-ownership executor who gets things done and is comfortable building in ambiguity. - Strong analytical skills (quantitative and qualitative) and clear, concise written and verbal communication. - Strong product instincts and genuine empathy for PMs and cross-functional partners. - Hands-on familiarity with AI tools and a point of view on where agentic workflows can accelerate product work. Bonus Points if: - You have been a founding or first product-ops hire. - Prior technical experience, or deep curiosity to build technical fluency in our products. - Experience in crypto / blockchain, fintech, or developer-platform companies. - Experience building agentic workflows or tooling to support product / engineering processes. We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $170,000 - $245,000 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

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. We are looking for a seasoned Head of Payments BD to drive our growth in active accounts and reaffirm Stellar’s position as the leading blockchain for payments. The person in this role will serve as a key leader on the business team at Stellar and manage the business development team that is focused on growing active accounts on the Stellar network. Core areas are around building out Stellar’s payments and stablecoin ecosystem, growing wallets at a global scale, managing key verticals where we are strong like international aid, and growing into new verticals. This person will support the broader partnership team and company objectives, and will be the owner of primary OKRs focused on account growth and payment volume. In this role, your responsibilities will include: - Managing the team responsible for driving Monthly Active Account volume on Stellar. This includes strategizing around: (1) payouts and commerce, (2) ramps and wallet growth for the Stellar ecosystem, and (3) vertical specific strategies on Aid. This will also include a thorough analysis of the merchant payment ecosystem at a global scale and establishing a commercial engagement strategy to drive these onboarded to the Stellar network. - Developing a priority target list and ensuring execution against primary targets. - Managing key strategic relationships with global payment service provider. - Business development work related to our core priorities on expanding DeFi, increasing monthly addresses, and driving asset tokenization, in coordination with Leads of each partnership vertical to drive relevant outcomes. These include surfacing opportunities based on Stellar’s needs, as well as helping to close deals brought by other members of BD and SDF. - Assist on regulatory and government relations needs in-region, helping support the Legal, Policy and Government Relations teams. - Assist the Ecosystem team to identify, plan, and run events in-region. You have: - 10+ years of relevant experience with a proven track record of success in business development, with significant experience in payment processing, fintech, or blockchain/crypto-related roles. - Crypto Knowledge: Strong understanding of crypto payment systems, including experience working with cryptocurrency exchanges, blockchain technology, and digital asset payments. - Deep understanding of merchant payment systems and the ability for blockchain to enhance these, with a focus on understanding of global and local payments across different regions - Sales/Commercial Leadership: Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams to meet and exceed targets. - Strategic Thinker: Experience in developing and executing go-to-market strategies, identifying new business opportunities, and managing complex sales cycles. - Industry Expertise: Experience working with financial institutions, crypto companies, payment providers, or fintech startups. - Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop and maintain professional relationships with a network of senior-level professionals, as well as sound judgment, poise in professional settings, and self-awareness. - Self starter with an entrepreneurial drive. - Communication & Negotiation Skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and negotiate high-stakes deals. - The ability to travel as needed, with frequent representation of Stellar at regional/global meetings and conferences. Bonus points if you have: - Existing relat

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is seeking a Senior Director, Account Management to lead the account management practice within SDF's Business Development team and drive the adoption and expansion of everyday financial services use cases on Stellar. As a true player-coach, you are a talented and experienced account manager who blends a strong team management background with a proven track record in key account success. This role will be responsible for managing futureAccount Managers as well as managing the relationships with a subset of tier 1 ecosystem partners. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in financial services and familiarity with blockchain and tokenization strategies. Most importantly, you will be growing the world of blockchain and supporting SDF’s mission of creating equitable access to the global financial system. In this role, you will: - Pod Leadership & Management: Serve as a player-coach, leading the Account Management pod by setting performance standards and establishing best practices. In addition to team leadership, you will directly manage a personal portfolio of Tier 1 ecosystem partners. - Internal Governance & Practice Excellence: Represent the Account Management practice within the SDF. This includes designing, implementing, and optimizing management processes and supporting assets to ensure operational excellence. - Strategic Relationship Management: Drive high-stakes engagement with regulated asset issuers, financial institutions, and payment providers. You are responsible for accelerating ecosystem growth by scaling: - Tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs): Increasing AUM, TVL, and RWA-specific Monthly Active Users (MAUs). - Payment Operations: Expanding payment volumes, wallet adoption, and Monthly Active Accounts (MAAs). - DeFi Integration: Deepening engagement and maximizing TVL across the network. - Business Development & Growth: Identify and pitch high-growth opportunities, products, and features to existing partners. You will structure cross-sell and upsell deals that align strictly with Stellar’s long-term ecosystem strategy. - Market Strategy & Intelligence: Provide actionable insights on market trends, regulatory shifts, and competitive positioning. You will act as a strategic advisor to the Business Development teams to help refine and sharpen Go-To-Market (GTM) strategies. - Cross-Functional Execution: Partner closely with Legal, Compliance, Product, and Engineering teams to remove friction and support partners in scaling their assets on the Stellar blockchain. - Education & Advocacy: Serve as a subject matter expert and brand ambassador, educating partners and industry stakeholders on the unique technical advantages and value propositions of the Stellar network. You have: - Experience: 10+ years in business development or account management within financial services, capital markets, or asset management. - Institutional Expertise: Deep functional knowledge of the full lifecycle of traditional assets—including issuance, custody, and secondary market trading. Direct experience navigating the operational and regulatory requirements of institutional financial entities is essential. - Blockchain & Tokenization: Knowledge of blockchain and asset tokenization. - Stakeholder Engagement: Proven ability to manage complex relationships with institutional partners and navigate regulatory frameworks. - Strategic Thinking: Ability to identify emerging opportunities in the blockchain space while creating a frame

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. We are seeking a seasoned Capital Markets Lead to oversee the strategic deployment of capital, risk architecture, and market operations for our digital asset ecosystem. The ideal candidate is a strategic leader with 6+ years of financial experience (including 3+ years in blockchain) who can bridge the gap between complex DeFi mechanics, capital execution, and corporate governance. In this role, you will not only execute complex strategies but will also architect the policies, risk controls, and operational workflows that define how we engage with the broader market. You will serve as a primary liaison between our trading/DeFi activity and internal accounting, engineering, and executive leadership teams. In this role, you will: DeFi Engagements - Architect Capital Deployment Strategy: Manage the strategic roadmap for capital deployment to drive ecosystem utility, focusing on the evaluation and integration of high-quality protocols and liquidity solutions that enhance network health and asset accessibility. - Partnership Negotiation: Drive end-to-end commercial negotiations with institutional co-parties, liquidity providers, market makers, and DeFi protocols. - Ecosystem Stewardship: Serve as the functional point of contact within the DeFi landscape, cultivating high-level relationships to support the growth, security, and maturity of the ecosystem Token Execution - Strategic Execution: Facilitate the execution of cryptocurrency sales and treasury management programs, ensuring they align with broader corporate objectives and market conditions. - Program Economics: Develop and maintain internal options and volatility programs; define the quantitative parameters for execution to optimize program economics. - Performance Oversight: Monitor the efficacy of sales and liquidity programs against benchmarks, adjusting execution playbooks to reflect real-time market shifts. Asset and Protocol Research - Due Diligence Leadership: Conduct deep research into emerging DeFi protocols and assets prior to deployment. Evaluate tokenomics, governance models, technical viability, and strategic fit. - Economic Modeling: Gain a comprehensive understanding of the yield dynamics or net carry costs of a strategy, alongside the associated risks. Translate these complex technical outputs into clear, actionable assessments for leadership. - Engineering Liaison: Partner with Deployment Agencies to conduct security diligence on smart contracts, ensuring proposed integrations meet internal and external security standards. Portfolio Health & Risk Management - Framework Development: Operationalize the company’s risk appetite frameworks. Define and help implement continuous monitoring controls for smart contract risk, concentration risk, collateralization, and credit risk. - Proactive Mitigation: Identify emerging systemic risks within the portfolio; design and implement hedging or diversification strategies to protect assets. - Governance & Controls: Ensure that risk limits are not only monitored but actively enforced through automated alerting and reporting. Market Operations - Liquidity Strategy: Monitor market depth, volatility, and liquidity dynamics across key currency pairs. Propose and execute strategies to optimize liquidity. - Volatility Management: Analyze and manage positions related to volatility. Leverage data-driven insights to propose adjustments to lending and borrowing strategies. - Operational Excellence: Continuously improve the operations of our digital asset position

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. 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. 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. 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. 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. - 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. - Write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on edge case analysis and future-proofing our work. - Own core subsystems of Stellar Core, and help the team hit critical product milestones. - Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF. - 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 have: - You have 4+ years of 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're a great communicator that can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process. - You have a solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular. - You are knowledgeable of best practices and development tools and are passionate about technological innovation. - You have a passion for performance debugging and benchmarking. - You love a good challenge in an ever-evolving space - many of the challenges we face are being faced for the first time! - You're enthusiastic about working on a small, growing team where you'll be given a lot of autonomy. - You're open, empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner. Bonus Points if: - You have direct experience with designing and implementing distributed systems. - You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems. We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $180,000 - $280,000 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 - Flexibl

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. In this role you’ll be designing, building, and implementing changes to Stellar Core - the primary distributed system that is used for maintaining Stellar's ledger and obtaining global consensus. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of problems focused on growing and scaling our global network. This includes designing and implementing features that increase the performance of the network (peer to peer networking and processing performance), decentralization (resilience to nodes failing or coordinating to attack the network) as well as proper incentive mechanics for network participants. You’ll be playing with formal models and verification (consensus), simulation (confirm emergent properties) in addition to typical scalability problems (distributed and multi-core). In this role, you will: - Design and build key components of Stellar Core - the backbone software behind the Stellar Network. - 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. - Write clean, maintainable code with an emphasis on edge case analysis and future-proofing our work. - Own core subsystems of Stellar Core, and help the team hit critical product milestones. - Collaborate with the team on code review and design, and contribute to best practices for all of engineering at SDF. - 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 have: - You have 4+ years of 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're a great communicator that can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process. - You have a solid understanding of software design patterns, and how to build components that are reusable, extensible, and modular. - You are knowledgeable of best practices and development tools and are passionate about technological innovation. - You have a passion for performance debugging and benchmarking. - You love a good challenge in an ever-evolving space - many of the challenges we face are being faced for the first time! - You're enthusiastic about working on a small, growing team where you'll be given a lot of autonomy. - You're open, empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner. Bonus Points if: - You have direct experience with designing and implementing distributed systems. - You have a strong curiosity in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, and understand the fundamentals of these systems. We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $180,000 - $280,000 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,

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead design across SDF’s products and to raise the bar on craft for the whole team. This is a player-coach role: you will manage and mentor another designer while remaining a world-class individual contributor on our most important and visible work. You will set the design vision, uphold an exceptional standard of craft, and you are excited to leverage AI tools to multiply what a small design team can deliver — moving faster from concept to high-fidelity, shippable design. In this role, you will: - In your first 30 days: ramp on our products, design system, and roadmap; partner with PMs and engineers; and start contributing directly to active design work. - Within 90 days: own the design vision for key product areas, establish how the team works (including AI-assisted workflows), and support the growth of the designer you manage. - Set and champion a clear product design vision aligned with company goals and brand values. - Lead by example as our most senior designer — contributing directly to our most important projects with exceptional visual and interaction craft. - Manage, mentor, and grow another product designer; provide thoughtful feedback and career development. - Maintain and scale our design system to ensure consistency and speed across products. - Leverage AI design and prototyping tools to increase the team’s leverage and the quality and velocity of what you ship. - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ship pixel-perfect, user-centered experiences. - Conduct user research and usability testing to validate decisions, and champion user-centered design across the organization. You have: - 7+ years of product design experience with a strong portfolio of shipped, end-to-end work. - Exceptional visual and interaction design skills and a critical eye for detail. - Experience managing or mentoring other designers (formal management a plus). - Demonstrated use of AI tools to accelerate and elevate design work. - Expert knowledge of modern design tools (Figma, Framer, etc.) and experience building and scaling design systems. - Strong communication; you can present, influence, and align stakeholders at all levels. - A strong understanding of user-centered design, with experience in research and usability testing. Bonus Points if: - On-chain / crypto / fintech design experience. - You have built or scaled a design team. - You prototype with code or AI tools (Framer, v0, and similar). - Founder or 0→1 experience. We offer competitive pay with a base salary range for this position of $170,000 - $235,000 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 benefits through Kindbody - Wellbeing benefits (One Medical, Rightway, Headspace) - L&D budget of $1,500/year - Daily lunch and snacks in

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. SDF is looking for a Director of Site Reliability Engineering to lead a small, high-leverage SRE team and help shape how engineering teams own, operate, and improve production services. This is a senior engineering leadership role reporting to the CTO. You will set the vision, operating model, and culture for SRE while owning the core infrastructure services that help SDF engineering teams build, deploy, observe, and operate software with confidence. Engineering teams at SDF own the services they build. SRE provides the frameworks, standards, shared infrastructure, tooling, observability practices, and enablement model that make strong service ownership possible across engineering. You will be successful here if you bring strong technical judgment, pragmatic leadership, and the ability to influence through trust, clarity, and execution. SDF is a small, mission-driven foundation with a broad technical surface area, so this role requires leverage, ownership, and a bias toward solving the right problems over creating processes for its own sake. In this role, you will: - Lead, coach, and develop a distributed SRE team, setting a clear vision, charter, operating model, priorities, and success measures. - Define and roll out a Service Ownership & Maturity Framework across engineering, with expectations that vary appropriately by service criticality. - Own and improve core engineering infrastructure services, including cloud foundations, Kubernetes and compute patterns, CI/CD, observability, secrets management, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure automation. - Help engineering teams become stronger owners and operators of their services through better standards, dashboards, runbooks, alerting, escalation paths, operational readiness, and deployment practices. - Make reliability, operational maturity, infrastructure health, and developer productivity more measurable through trusted metrics and practical operational intelligence. - Improve deployment automation, resilience, self-healing patterns, disaster recovery readiness, and service reliability based on actual impact and risk. - Mature incident response, escalation, postmortems, and on-call health across a geographically distributed team. - Build paved paths and self-service infrastructure that reduce toil, lower cognitive load, and help engineering teams move faster while strengthening ownership and reliability. - Partner closely with Security, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Corporate IT where infrastructure, access management, cloud operations, vendor review, or controls intersect with engineering. - Pragmatically evaluate AI-assisted and agentic workflows where they can improve infrastructure operations, service ownership, developer workflows, or toil reduction. You have: - 10+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, production operations, or closely related engineering roles. - 5+ years of experience leading, managing, or formally developing infrastructure, SRE, platform, or reliability engineers. - Strong experience defining team charters, operating models, roadmaps, success measures, and engineering practices for infrastructure or reliability teams. - Deep technical judgment across cloud infrastructure, production operations, distributed systems, reliability tradeoffs, automation, and operational risk. - 3+ years of experience with modern cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or similar environments. - 3+ years of experience with Kub

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. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem. We're hiring a Director, Ecosystem & Product Security to lead security strategy across the Stellar ecosystem and directly own security outcomes for Foundation-developed systems, Foundation-operated infrastructure, and treasury-related security responsibilities. This role is focused on raising the practical security baseline across a decentralized financial ecosystem that includes wallets, infrastructure providers, custodians, issuers, validators, and other critical participants. Success means reducing real-world security risk and financial loss through clear standards, effective coordination, and practical improvements that are adopted in production. The role is both strategic and hands-on. It requires deep technical judgment across decentralized systems, product security, and operational risk, along with the ability to work across teams and influence independent ecosystem participants without direct authority. This is a highly cross-functional and externally visible leadership role. The right candidate will combine technical credibility, sound judgment, and strong execution to help make security a durable strength of both the Foundation and the broader Stellar network. In this role, you will: - Define and lead the Foundation’s security strategy across both the Stellar ecosystem and Foundation-owned systems - Raise the practical security baseline for key ecosystem participants, including wallets, infrastructure providers, custodians, issuers, and validators - Publish actionable guidance, reference patterns, and security expectations that drive real adoption across the ecosystem - Build coordination mechanisms for shared risks, incident response, and cross-ecosystem security improvement - Own security outcomes for Foundation-developed software, Foundation-operated infrastructure, and treasury / custody-related responsibilities - Partner with Engineering, Finance, Legal, IT, and Corporate Security to drive implementation of security controls and secure operating practices - Lead secure development efforts across architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty programs, and product incident response - Build and lead a high-performing security team, while translating strategy into execution plans and measurable outcomes - Represent the Foundation externally as a credible technical leader and convener on ecosystem security You have: - 10+ years of experience in security, including significant experience in senior leadership roles - 5+ years leading security programs, teams, or functions with meaningful scope - A track record of owning security outcomes for complex, high-consequence systems in production - Deep experience in product and application security, with hands-on judgment in real-world environments - Strong familiarity with blockchain and decentralized system security - The ability to assess and prioritize risk across areas such as protocol design, smart contracts, wallets, validators, dependencies, and governance mechanisms - Experience driving security improvements across multiple teams, organizations, or ecosystem participants, including in environments where you do not have direct authority - Strong incident judgment, including experience handling high-severity incidents and disclosure processes - A pragmatic approach to security, with the ability to make tradeoffs that reduce real-world risk rather than optimize for theoretical completeness - Experience building, leading, and developing high-performing security teams - The abi