Staff Rust Engineer, Solana — High-Performance On‑Chain Lead

Plexus Resource Solutions Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Plexus Resource Solutions Ltd in New York seeks a hands-on Staff Rust Engineer to own on-chain Solana programs, from design to deployment, monitoring and iteration.

You will work in a small, senior, on-site team handling high transaction volumes, optimize latency and throughput, and ensure security and correctness in production. Excellent ownership and fast shipping are valued.

Competitive base salary 300k–500k USD with equity and bonus for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building Solana programs in Rust at scale.
• Experience optimizing latency and throughput in production systems.
• Security-first mindset for adversarial environments.
• Ability to make sound decisions independently with incomplete information.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance Solana programs in Rust.
• Optimise compute, account layouts and transaction flows for latency and throughput.
• Own correctness, security and safe upgrades in production.
• Define clean boundaries between on-chain and off-chain systems with backend and frontend engineers.
• Shape protocol design, economic mechanics and system constraints.
• Ship changes quickly and see them used by a large live user base.

Skills

Solana

Rust

Performance optimization

Independent judgment

Tools

Rust

Solana

Job description

Plexus Resource Solutions Ltd in New York seeks a hands-on Staff Rust Engineer to own on-chain Solana programs, from design to deployment, monitoring and iteration.

You will work in a small, senior, on-site team handling high transaction volumes, optimize latency and throughput, and ensure security and correctness in production. Excellent ownership and fast shipping are valued.

Competitive base salary 300k–500k USD with equity and bonus for exceptional candidates.