Staff Engineer, Syncro
About the role
You will 🚀
- Own the architecture and write the core low-latency code across Syncro (Rust).
- Cut latency
by design
: validator submission path, network routing/peering, node co-location, direct QUIC/TPU ingress.
- Cut latency
in code
: optimal algorithms and data structures, tight time/space complexity, language- and OS-level performance (memory layout, allocations, cache, syscalls, lock-free concurrency).
- Lead the multi-region rollout on bare-metal and cloud, co-located near client trading venues.
- Eliminate single points of failure with HA and automatic failover.
- Automate safe, self-serve releases; own latency/uptime SLOs, observability, and alerting.
- Set the technical bar through design and code review.
You have 🧩
8+ years
Write highly efficient code
Deep Solana internals
Trading / MEV / market-data infrastructure
Expert in a systems language
Networking and latency tuning
Production infrastructure
PostgreSQL; RabbitMQ/Kafka in HA.
- Owned a complex system's architecture end-to-end.
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English C1+; remote, async.
Nice to have 🧩
- Solana validator operations / staking infrastructure.
- MEV ecosystem — relayers, bundles, block engines.
- SUI, Hyperliquid, or other high-throughput chains.
- Real-time market-data / streaming systems at scale.
- Low-level profiling and benchmarking (perf, flamegraphs).
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Blockchain open-source contributions.
Fully remote
- Full-time contractor (Indefinite-term Consultancy Agreement)
- Competitive salary level in $ (we can also pay in crypto)
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Paid vacation and sick leave
Well-being program
Mental Health care program
- Compensation for education, including foreign language & professional growth courses
- Equipment & co-working reimbursement program
- Overseas conferences, community immersion
is committed to providing equal opportunities. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. Originally posted on Himalayas
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