Jobs at Stellar Development Foundation

Design, build, and maintain Stellar Core, the distributed system powering the Stellar blockchain. Responsibilities include developing scalable network components, improving peer-to-peer and processing performance, strengthening resilience and decentralization, investigating bottlenecks, authoring protocol specifications, and contributing to architecture, code reviews, and open-source engineering practices.

Manage partner integration programs for the Stellar blockchain network, coordinating engineering, business development, marketing, product, and account management teams. Own partner roadmaps, lead technical and business meetings, resolve dependencies and blockers, maintain program documentation, measure performance against OKRs, and establish scalable program-management processes. The role requires technical fluency, financial services experience, blockchain familiarity, strong communication and leadership skills, and willingness to travel internationally.

Lead and manage the Site Reliability Engineering team, establish vision, define processes for collaboration, design robust infrastructure, and mentor team members while ensuring service availability and system reliability.

Lead product strategy and roadmaps across Stellar network areas (core protocol, payments, DeFi, developer experience, AI agents). Rapidly validate ideas using AI-assisted prototypes, work closely with engineering and design, engage users and partners, and ship high-quality products while measuring impact.

Founding Product Operations Lead to design and run the product operating system, standing up planning cadences, roadmap and execution tracking, PM enablement, and tooling. Improve visibility, automate workflows (including AI/agentic solutions), capture product artifacts and feedback, and partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale product processes without adding bureaucracy.

Lead product design across Stellar Development Foundation products as a player-coach: set design vision, contribute high-fidelity work, manage and mentor a designer, scale the design system, leverage AI-assisted workflows, partner with Product and Engineering, and run user research and usability testing.

Design and build the public API layer, manage the transaction lifecycle, develop indexers, and implement analytics pipelines for robust production infrastructure.

Provide legal counsel for outward-facing marketing, communications, product launches, events, brand/IP, and partner initiatives. Review and negotiate marketing and partnership agreements, identify and mitigate regulatory, privacy, consumer protection, and reputational risks, support event and brand strategy, and build scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks to enable fast-moving cross-functional teams.

Lead enterprise payments business development to grow monthly active accounts and payment volume on the Stellar network. Build and execute go-to-market strategies across B2B2B/B2B2C payouts, marketplaces, PSPs, and neobanks; manage strategic accounts and target lists; integrate RWA and DeFi opportunities cross-functionally; and close complex, high-value commercial deals while representing Stellar at regional and global events.

The Director of Research will lead the research agenda at SDF, fostering collaboration with academic and industry partners, overseeing research efforts, building a team, and translating research outcomes into practical impacts.

Design and build key components of Stellar Core, improve system performance, collaborate on architecture, and lead technical discussions.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop key components of Stellar Core, enhance blockchain technology, and collaborate with engineering teams.

Own end-to-end brand and content design across campaigns, product launches, and multi-channel marketing. Develop narrative-driven visual concepts, evolve the design system, manage production lifecycles and agency partners, lead high-visibility projects, and introduce scalable components and AI tools to improve creative output.

Design, build, and deploy end-to-end wallet features (Freighter) and supporting services. Implement scalable backend systems, client interfaces, and data models. Collaborate on design, code reviews, and open-source community integrations to improve the Stellar ecosystem and wallet experiences.