Solana Networking/Performance Engineer

Temporal is hiring a Solana Networking Engineer to work in our NYC office with deep expertise in Rust and high-performance distributed systems. In this role, you’ll work on critical infrastructure supporting and focusing on systems-level optimizations, monitoring, and resilience at scale to accelerate Solana forward.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain validators, RPC servers, and networking infrastructure in Rust

Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for server health and network performance

Collaborate with dev and infra teams to identify bottlenecks and increase system throughput

Requirements

5+ years of experience in systems engineering, performance, or infrastructure roles

Proficient in Rust for high-performance applications

Strong background in distributed systems design and benchmarking

Experience with infrastructure as code tools and container orchestration

Strong understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, QUIC)

Deep familiarity with monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, etc.)

Super Bonus: HPC experience

Why Join Temporal?

We are a small, highly technical team that gravitates toward the hardest problems on Solana, with an emphasis on moving fast above all else.

Here you will own your work and directly contribute. There is no bureaucracy, only shipping.

$200,000–$300,000 base salary, equity package, and discretionary bonus