Senior Go & Rust Blockchain Infra Engineer

SOLANA FOUNDATION; Fort Lauderdale (FL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Quicknode is seeking a senior individual contributor for its Blockchain Infrastructure team. You will design, build, and optimize high-throughput Go services and Rust components powering our distributed backend across 80+ networks.

You will own systems end-to-end, mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and help set engineering standards adopted across multiple teams. This role offers growth toward Staff or Principal Engineer.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating backend or distributed systems in high-scale production environments.
• Advanced proficiency in Go and Rust with production shipping experience in both.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, concurrency, memory safety, databases, networking, and production software architecture.
• Proven track record delivering reliable, scalable systems with measurable improvements.
• Experience with blockchain infrastructure, high-throughput APIs, or similar distributed platforms.
• Security-aware design, threat modeling, and disciplined testing for critical systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication and ability to lead cross-team projects.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend services in Go and Rust for production blockchain infrastructure.
• Own production Go services and Rust components, including architecture, interfaces, testing, and deployment.
• Architect distributed systems that ingest, process, and serve blockchain data with strong guarantees around consistency and availability.
• Own end-to-end technical work: requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, observability, and incident response.
• Profile and benchmark production systems to identify bottlenecks and improve throughput and resilience.
• Assess security risks and design controls to protect transactions and data.
• Debug complex failures across services and drive durable root-cause fixes.
• Partner with Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Developer Experience to translate requirements into maintainable systems.
• Lead design reviews, mentor engineers, and establish cross-team engineering standards.

Skills

Go

Rust

Distributed systems

Backend development

Security

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Kafka

RPC infrastructure

Go toolchain

Rust toolchain

Job description

Quicknode is seeking a senior individual contributor for its Blockchain Infrastructure team. You will design, build, and optimize high-throughput Go services and Rust components powering our distributed backend across 80+ networks.

You will own systems end-to-end, mentor engineers, lead design reviews, and help set engineering standards adopted across multiple teams. This role offers growth toward Staff or Principal Engineer.