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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.\nWhat We Do\nThe Foundation collaborates with both internal contributors and external ecosystem teams to solve key technical challenges and accelerate the development of core infrastructure, developer tooling, and open source standards. This includes everything from on-chain protocols to growth tooling, smart contract frameworks, and new developer experiences.\nWe work closely with many of the most ambitious teams in crypto - including those building next-generation DeFi, payments, gaming, DePIN, and Real-World Asset platforms.\nThe Opportunity\nWe’re looking for talented Solana Program Engineers, with a strong emphasis on developers who have built - or want to build - cutting-edge DeFi protocols on Solana.\nThis is an open application to express your interest in working on one of several high-impact teams across the Solana ecosystem. Depending on your background and interests, we may connect you with projects building:\nAdvanced DeFi Protocols\nCentral Limit Order Books (CLOBs)\n\nOn-chain AMMs and hybrid liquidity models\n\nLending markets, margin trading, and perps\n\nBonding curves and structured products\n\nOracle integrations and liquidation engines\n\nGovernance, fee sharing, and staking mechanisms\n\nCore Infrastructure & Tooling\nSmart contract wallets and programmable access\n\nGasless relayers and session keys\n\nIndexers and custom RPCs\n\nAnchor / Pinocchio contributions\n\nOn-chain Applications & Middleware\nToken launch frameworks and fair distribution tooling\n\nReal-world asset registries and payment rails\n\nDePIN coordination systems\n\nSelected candidates will be matched with ecosystem teams (and in some cases, the Foundation’s internal contributors) based on your skills, interests, and availability. 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