Jobs at Stellar Development Foundation

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering team by establishing the vision, mentoring members, ensuring operational excellence, and collaborating on infrastructure and tooling.

Lead and contribute to product design across Stellar’s products, set design vision, maintain and scale the design system, mentor a designer, partner with PMs and engineers, use AI-assisted workflows, and run user research and usability testing to ship pixel-perfect user-centered experiences.

Stand up and own the product operating system and cadences for the Product organization: roadmaps, planning cycles, execution tracking, and PM enablement. Improve visibility, build feedback loops, capture high-quality product artifacts, and identify opportunities to automate work using AI and agentic workflows. Partner closely with Engineering and Product leadership to scale a high-performing product culture.

Lead product strategy and roadmap across areas like core protocol, enterprise payments, DeFi, developer experience, or AI agents. Talk to users and partners, use AI to generate prototypes, partner with Engineering and Design to deliver and measure high-quality products, and balance near-term needs with long-term network health.

Lead and manage the business development team to grow monthly active accounts and payment volume on the Stellar network. Build the payments and stablecoin ecosystem, scale wallets globally, target verticals (including aid), manage strategic PSP relationships, execute go-to-market strategies, support regulatory/government relations, run regional events, and own OKRs tied to account growth and payments.

The Senior Events Marketing Manager leads the planning and execution of major events, manages agency relationships, oversees logistics, and ensures operational success across multiple event tiers.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll develop backend services and APIs for the Stellar ecosystem, optimize systems for performance, and contribute to open-source efforts.

Oversee capital deployment, market operations, risk management, and DeFi engagements. Lead negotiations, perform asset research, and report on performance for a digital asset ecosystem.

Responsible for leading the Account Management team, driving blockchain adoption in financial services, managing relationships with key partners, and developing strategic market insights.

The Backend Engineer will design and build public APIs, manage transaction lifecycles, and create a data backend for the Stellar ecosystem.

The Director of Account Management will lead the account management team, manage key partner relationships, drive ecosystem growth, and provide market insights, while ensuring operational excellence and educating stakeholders about blockchain technology.

Design, build, and implement changes to Stellar Core while working on performance improvements, decentralization, and incentive mechanics. Collaborate on architectures and contribute to code reviews under the Stellar Development Foundation.

The Director of Research will lead the research agenda at SDF, fostering collaboration with academic and industry partners, overseeing research efforts, building a team, and translating research outcomes into practical impacts.

Design and develop key components of Stellar Core while collaborating with team members. Engage in performance optimization and ensure the system's scalability and security.

The Senior Software Engineer will develop wallet projects on blockchain, design APIs, build scalable web services, and drive technical discussions.

The Senior Design Manager will oversee creative vision and execution across various channels, lead a design team, and manage external relationships to establish and evolve Stellar's visual identity.