Staff Solana Program Engineer ($300 - $500k salary)

The role

You will design, build, and maintain on-chain Solana programs in Rust that operate under heavy real-world load. You will own programs end to end from design through deployment and monitoring.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-performance Solana programs in Rust
• Reason about program correctness, security, and upgradeability
• Optimise compute usage, account layouts, and transaction flows
• Work with backend and frontend engineers to design on-chain and off-chain boundaries
• Debug, test, and ship changes
• Participate in design discussions around protocol changes, economic mechanics, and system constraints
• Own programs end to end from design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration

Required qualifications

• Highly experienced engineer who has deployed production smart contracts or on-chain programs that operate at meaningful scale, with real users, sustained volume, and operational constraints
• Understand that building at scale is different from deploying isolated contracts
• Thoughtful about security, adversarial environments, and long-term maintainability
• Able to work independently, take ownership, and make sound technical decisions with incomplete information
• Motivated by operating real systems at scale

Benefits

• Unmatched ownership and autonomy
• Exposure to systems operating at the edge of crypto scale
• The ability to ship fast and see real-world impact immediately

About the company

Baton Corporation is the development company that builds and operates the entire technology stack behind pump.fun.