Solana Blockchain Engineer (RnD team)

About the role:

We are looking for a hands-on Solana Blockchain Engineer to join our client’s RnD team remotely. The engineer will play a key role in building tools to extract and process Solana blockchain transactions from various data sources. Your responsibilities will include labeling and augmenting transactions with metadata and storing them in a proprietary data format.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop tools to extract Solana blockchain transactions from multiple data sources.
• Label and augment transactions with metadata for further analysis.
• Store transactions in a custom data format for efficient querying and analysis.
• Collaborate closely with the research team to implement innovative blockchain solutions.

What you bring along:

• Rust Proficiency: Experience with async (Tokio), streams, gRPC, SQL (Postgres, DuckDB), DataFusion, S3, web crawling, actor model, and tracing.
• Solana Expertise: Deep knowledge of Solana internals (Blocks, Transactions, Signatures, PoH), smart contracts, SPL Tokens, Metaplex, Anchor, web RPC protocol, and decentralized exchange (DEX) architecture and flows.
• CI/CD Knowledge: Familiar with GitHub Actions, Docker, and Linux CLI for deployment automation.
• Expertise in ETL processes and Big Data: Kafka, JSON, ProtoBuf, Borsh, Parquet, MapReduce, App Monitoring, and ETL monitoring, Delta Lake or Apache Iceberg.

What we offer:

• The possibility to participate in a new Solana-related project as an RnD Engineer and try discovering ways to create a platform on the intersection of AI and Blockchain.
• Part time employment, around 20 working hours per week.
• Full remote work format, you can work from any location in the world.
• We are ready to consider your salary rate.