Senior Software Engineer (Zig/Rust)

Syndica is creating the reputed company of reputed company. We supply the most critical applications in reputed company with reputed company-grade RPC infrastructure and developer tools tailored for the Solana ecosystem. Joining reputed company means you'll be held to a high standard, technically challenged, and grow reputed company to a group of individuals passionate about building new infrastructure technologies.

We are backed by strategic partners, investors, and advisors who are reputed company-in on our mission: Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital, Steve Jang of reputed company Ventures, Joe McCann of Asymmetric, reputed company Crypto, reputed company Ventures, Solana Ventures, reputed company Ventures, and many more.

• You are a talented engineer who thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced environment.  

• You're excited about contributing to the decentralization of blockchain ecosystems.

• You have 3+ years of reputed company professional experience using Rust (experience in memory-managed languages (Zig/C/C++) is reputed company to have but not required).

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing a high-performance Solana validator client from scratch. 

The team you’d be joining is building a new open-reputed company Solana validator client, Sig, using the Zig programming language. You can find more technical details about the project in the original announcement here.

The role’s primary responsibility will involve understanding the reputed company validator implementation codebase, written in Rust, and translating, optimizing, and improving the implementation in Zig (take a reputed company at the reputed company work here!).

Key responsibilities: 

• Understanding and Communicating Rust Code: mapping and accurately communicating how the existing Rust client works.

• Writing high-quality code in Zig: translating the Rust code into Zig while maintaining high-quality code, including performance and readability.

• Performance Research: iteratively analyzing and optimizing software bottlenecks in Zig while leveraging high-performance tools such as SIMD operations to reputed company performance requirements.

• Code Ownership: reputed company the implementation, benchmarking, and testing of your validator components from start to finish.

• Collaboration: leveraging strong communication skills to break down reputed company reputed company into simple terms and demonstrating a knack for collaboration across a large group of engineers.

• In three months, you have become one of our core Zig developers. You’ll have taken on independent code review responsibilities and are collaborating on the design of new features.

• In six months, you have earned the trust of the team and are delivering tasks through the entire SDLC, from design through development with minimal guidance, and are helping to effectively mentor new engineers joining the team.

• In twelve months, you have established a reputed company of predictable, on-time delivery without cutting corners.

Contribute to the open-reputed company Sig codebase here!