United States onlyOne of our portfolio companies is hiring a Solana Validator & Stake Pool Operatorto join their infrastructure team as an early member and own end to end operation of validator notes and stake pools. This is not a listing for an internal role at Dragonfly.
What They Are Looking For:
- Proven experience operating Solana validators, especially using bare metal providers, and familiarity with the Solana CLI.
- Strong Linux system administration skills, with knowledge of networking fundamentals.
- Proficiency with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus).
- Comfort automating infrastructure using tools like Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
- A good grasp of blockchain staking mechanics and validator incentive models.
- Ability to respond to incidents and recover from downtime independently and quickly.
About the Role:
- Operate and monitor Solana validator nodes across testnet and mainnet environments.
- Launch and manage a Solana stake pool; monitor inflows/outflows, delegate communications, and pool performance.
- Maintain highly available, secure infrastructure—both in cloud and hosted bare metal environments.
- Build and manage observability tooling, including dashboards, alerting, and logging systems.
- Automate deployment and updates of validator software using infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Collaborate with network and protocol engineers to support client upgrades and ecosystem initiatives.
- Ensure rigorous security standards, backups, and failover strategies are in place.
- Analyze rewards, vote credits, and uptime metrics to optimize validator competitiveness.
Other Roles We’re Hiring For:If this role isn’t the right fit, we’re also hiring engineers across the portfolio, especially those interested in crypto infrastructure, developer tools, or zero-to-one product builds. Many of our portfolio companies are looking for founding or early-stage engineers ready to ship and own core systems.
Process:
- We’ll confidentially match you with portfolio companies aligned with your background, skill set, and interests. If mutual interest exists between you and a team, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction.
- If there isn’t a match today, we’ll keep you top of mind for future opportunities.
Our portfolio companies are globally distributed, hiring for remote, hybrid, and in-person roles worldwide. They’re building across the entire crypto ecosystem, including DeFi, CeFi, infrastructure, L1s and L2s, creator/consumer applications, NFTs, ZK, and more. All candidate submissions are strictly confidential.
Submit your information below, and we’ll be in touch if there’s a potential fit.
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