Senior Software Engineer, C++

Tags: Web3 Jobs • Cryptocurrency Senior Jobs • Web3 Engineering Jobs • Web3 C++ Jobs • Web3 Web3 Jobs • Cryptocurrency Open Source Jobs Interested in working on cutting-edge blockchain technology and creating equitable access to the global financial system? Since 2014, the mission-driven team at the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) has helped fuel the tremendous growth of the Stellar blockchain network, an open-source platform that operates at high-scale today. Developers and companies around the world build on it, and the SDF team is expanding to support the rapidly growing and changing Stellar ecosystem.

As a C++ Engineer at Stellar, you'll be at the heart of it all—designing and evolving Stellar Core , the distributed engine powering our global ledger and consensus. This is your chance to work on real-world, high-impact distributed systems that are actively used by developers, institutions, and builders around the world. You’ll tackle complex, meaningful challenges that push the boundaries of what’s possible in blockchain—boosting performance, strengthening decentralization, and designing incentive mechanisms that drive long-term network health.

Whether you're optimizing peer-to-peer networking, building resilience against coordinated attacks, or simulating consensus models to validate security and scalability—you’ll be doing it all. If you're excited by formal verification, simulations, distributed systems, and multi-core performance, and want to help shap