Metaplex Studios is hiring a

Senior Blockchain Engineer, Solana

With 21% of America owning crypto currencies and 4% now owning NFTs, people everywhere are choosing a decentralized internet full of possibilities. Metaplex Studios is bringing to life these possibilities for our growing community through the Metaplex NFT Standard. Since our June 2021 launch, Metaplex is already one of the most popular ecosystems for makers to launch NFTs.

• 5.7M NFTs minted
• 85k projects in gaming, arts & collectibles, marketplaces, developer tools, and beyond
• Metaplex is 99% market share for Solana NFTs

And, we're just getting started. Come onboard and be a part of internet history as we define the next generation of user experiences on Web3 and empower innovation in a trustless world through the Metaplex Protocol and NFTs.

About this Role

How will millions of internet users benefit from a new decentralized web? As Senior Blockchain Engineer, you’ll be instrumental in bringing the NFT revolution to hundreds of millions of people. Your efforts will help empower our community as they invent the future of media, gaming, music and more using the Metaplex Protocol. And, you’ll protect their interests by defining ownership using NFTs on web3.

Because of your position on the engineering team, the Metaplex Team will look to you to understand our code base, map out what’s possible, and contribute to roadmap discussions. You’ll work closely with ecosystem developers and Metaplex Studios internal teams. The choice is yours! Travel to developer events to evangelize Metaplex (ie, Art Basel Miami) or Solana Hacker Houses or meet with VIP partners in gaming, sports, and media. The team will support you, and we’re excited for where the adventure takes you!

What You'll Do

• Ideate, design, implement, and deploy new NFT-focused Solana programs, like Candy Machine, as well as other parts of our technology stack. The team will empower you to make important architecture decisions too!
• Partner cross-functionally on product evolution from ideation, design, architecting systems, and process.
• Create and maintain Solana programs that power the entire Solana NFT community. You’ll support technical infrastructure, hardware, and system software components.
• Create architecture, designs, and documentation that will lead to consistent reliability, scalability, security, and performance of the Solana network.
• Refine and enhance processes that allow for proper testing and validation of releases that go from development to staging to production environments.
• Maintain and improve Metaplex metrics and analysis tools.
• Collaborate with the community on protocol needs and development tools.

• You have 3+ years of Rust experience with preferably 2+ years of experience working blockchains. Bitcoin/Ethereum/Blockchain related open sources projects is a major bonus as well. A four year degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) is also preferred but not required.
• You have 4+ years of experience implementing, troubleshooting, and supporting core infrastructure software and/or distributed systems.
• Experience in configuration management, automation efforts, technical troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Scripting experience in writing/modifying code to improve monitoring and automation.
• Experienced with Linux, systems automation tools, and systems architecture tools.
• Experienced with TCP/IP networking, architecture, and distributed systems.
• Comfortable with designing secure protocols, software, and algorithms which reduce trust.
• An open source contributor / have experience with the open source ecosystem is a huge plus.
• You care about the quality of systems and will pitch-in to help debug and fix performance issues when the situation calls for it.
• You’re passionate about crypto and NFTs and always willing to learn!
• Lastly, and most importantly, your excitement to bring innovation in a trustless world makes you inherently a beacon of positivity for our team and our community.

These are for full-time employees

• Remote organization. Work anywhere in the US.
• Your monthly health care premium is covered
• $4k stipend for technology
• Your own NFT avatar when you join
• Hang out with your team at crypto conferences and hacker off-sites

We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, sexuality, and metaverses to apply.

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