Infrastructure Engineer

Who We Are

The Solana Foundation is a non-profit based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the adoption, decentralization, and security of the Solana network. Solana is a high performance blockchain that can deliver a fast and friendly user experience, without sacrificing security. The Solana Foundation is working to realize a world where individuals own their data, use permissionless networks, and transfer information and value freely around the world. We are looking for talented people who are willing to jump right in and use their expertise to help the ecosystem build.

What We Do

The Solana Foundation Product team is responsible for working with internal and external teams to build tooling, infrastructure and scaffolds that help builders create better products across the ecosystem. The product team works full-stack to find solutions to acute problems and find collaboration opportunities to build standards, working groups and provision grants where appropriate.

The Opportunity

Solana Foundation is seeking a highly driven Infrastructure Engineer to join our Product team. This is a hybrid infrastructure role that spans both our web properties and our trading infrastructure. You'll be the person keeping token APIs, indexers, and frontend services running smoothly while also helping operate co-located nodes, and ETL data jobs. The ideal candidate is product-minded, comfortable context-switching between web infrastructure and low-latency trading systems, and committed to finding a balance between quality and shipping.

To be Successful in this role
You will:

• Deploy, monitor, and scale the Foundation's suite of web properties (solana.com, developer tools, marketing sites) across public cloud providers, ensuring high availability for millions of users

• Operate and maintain token APIs, trade and quote indexers and real-time data feeds that surface historical and live market data across Solana venues (perps, AMMs, CLOBs, Props)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release processes and terraform management to improve developer velocity and deployment confidence

• Implement observability with logging, monitoring, alerting, and dashboards across both web services and trading infrastructure

• Manage secrets, harden deployments and enforce security best practices across all environments

• Set up and maintain data pipelines for network and trading venue behavior monitoring

• Support trading infrastructure operations including co-located nodes, Jito shredstream proxies, TPU ingestion and shred distribution

• Build and operate ETL pipelines and real-time data feeds with high levels of accuracy and uptime

• Build proactive monitoring for transaction landing rates, shred delays, RPC errors, and trader health

• Drive incident response, run post-mortems, and build continuous testing tools

• Create technical documentation and runbooks that help the team operate and debug infrastructure independently
  

You ideally have:

• 5+ years of experience in Devops, SRE or infrastructure engineering

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation)

• Experience with public cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Cloudflare)

• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, BuldKite, CircleCI, etc)

• Experience building and operating monitoring/alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc)

• Incident response experience and comfort with on-call rotations

• Strong communication skills and ability to work asynchronously across time zones
  

Bonus Points

• Experience with trading systems, market infrastructure, or latency-sensitive environments

• Experience working with blockchain and blockchain based-tooling (Solana experience preferred but not required)