--- title: 'Solana Protocol Engineer at Wormhole Labs' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/solana-protocol-engineer-wormhole-labs-remote-byz4v5ja0063' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Solana Protocol Engineer at Wormhole Labs - **Company:** Wormhole Labs - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2024-06-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wormholelabs/e5e39675-92e4-48bf-ba9a-df52fad4dd8c ## Job description Wormhole Labs is a pioneering blockchain technology company building decentralized systems for a freer and fairer global economy. We're reshaping financial infrastructure across the entire crypto stack, from core protocol development to trading systems and user-facing applications. At our core, we're technology innovators bridging traditional finance with the emerging possibilities of crypto. Our seasoned team leverages deep technical expertise to develop solutions that advance the industry. We're seeking talented individuals who share our vision, and have the technical prowess to help build it — join us! As a Solana Protocol Engineer at Wormhole Labs, you will make significant contributions to Wormhole’s ecosystem of programs and protocols on Solana. You will either drive or partner with domain experts on the entire lifecycle of protocol development, including ideation, design, implementation, security review, and deployment. ## What you will do - Contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and security review of Wormhole’s core Solana programs and to protocols expanding to Solana. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather customer requirements, analyze business needs, and translate them into smart contract code. - Follow best practices for secure smart contract development and build future best practices alongside Wormhole security researchers. - Stay up to date with the latest in Solana tooling, best practices, and industry trends. The ideal candidate will - Have deep experience writing production Solana programs. Alternatively, you’ve written production Rust for applications with millions of users. - Be high agency and effect the outcomes they wish to see. - Care deeply about the business outcomes of your work and challenge priorities when the business impact is unclear. - Have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, although equivalent practical experience will also be taken into consideration. We provide - Competitive salary and restricted token units, dependent on position type and location. - Unlimited time off, healthcare premium reimbursement, and 401K. - Top-of-the-line MacBook Pro laptop. - Flexibility of working from wherever you have work authorization, as long as you can work 10-6PM US Eastern Time. We minimize unnecessary meetings, but building decentralized systems requires synchronous communication. Note: This is a senior-level role. We will only respond to applicants that meet our requirements. If we don’t respond, please assume a polite decline for now. ## About Wormhole Labs ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Wormhole Labs develops open-source blockchain interoperability technology to enable seamless communication and asset transfer across multiple blockchain networks. - **Entity Type**: Private (Startup) - **Headquarters**: Remote-first; operates across the United States, Sweden, India, Germany, and the United Kingdom - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Tony Jin (Co-Founder & CTO), Anthony Ramirez (COO & Co-Founder) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Blockchain Infrastructure / Cross-Chain Interoperability - **Target Customers**: B2B — blockchain developers, decentralized application (dApp) builders, protocols, and enterprises building multichain applications - **Mission**: "To radically reduce the friction of building multichain applications" and create a boundaryless blockchain world where users can ignore the underlying technology or dive deep if they choose. ## Products & Services - **Wormhole Protocol**: The core open-source blockchain messaging protocol that enables cross-chain communication, asset transfers, and data passing between over 30+ blockchains (including Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Avalanche, and others). - **Wormhole Connect**: A frontend SDK and widget that allows developers to integrate cross-chain functionality into their applications with minimal code. - **Wormhole Queries**: A system for syncing data across EVM chains and Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain data retrieval. - **Example Swap Layer**: A reference implementation for a Uniswap-based swap layer integrated with the Wormhole Liquidity Layer. - **Solana World ID Program**: An on-chain template bringing Worldcoin's World ID identity verification to the Solana ecosystem. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/ Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding — not publicly disclosed; company is believed to be well-capitalized given its roots in Jump Trading/Jump Crypto (founders and many early team members came from Jump) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: - **AMD** — collaborating on FPGA accelerators to enhance blockchain connectivity - **Jump Trading / Jump Crypto** — key talent source and likely strategic backer - **Uniswap** — via the example swap layer integration - **Worldcoin** — via the Solana World ID integration - **Growth Signals**: - Headcount grew 35.7% YoY (from ~9 to 12 employees) - Monthly headcount growth of 5.6% - Team spans 5 countries with 42% in the US - 63 public repositories on GitHub with active open-source contributions - High LinkedIn engagement on partnership announcements (e.g., AMD collaboration received 380+ reactions) ## Competitive Advantages - **Deep expertise**: Team hails from quantitative trading (Jump Trading), venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds — bringing a rare combination of financial rigor and blockchain engineering depth. - **Open-source leadership**: Actively contributes to the core Wormhole protocol and maintains 63 public repos, fostering developer trust and ecosystem adoption. - **Cross-chain ubiquity**: Supports 30+ blockchains, making Wormhole one of the most widely integrated interoperability protocols in the industry. - **Security-first approach**: Emphasizes secure development practices and partners with hardware leaders (AMD) for FPGA-accelerated blockchain connectivity. - **Remote-first culture**: Ability to attract top global talent without geographic constraints. ## Strategic Focus - **Deepening interoperability**: Continuing to expand the number of supported blockchains and improve cross-chain messaging efficiency. - **Developer experience**: Making multichain development as simple as single-chain development through SDKs, widgets, and reference implementations. - **Identity and composability**: Exploring cross-chain identity solutions (e.g., World ID on Solana) and composable liquidity layers. - **Hardware acceleration**: Partnering with AMD to leverage FPGA technology for faster, more secure blockchain connectivity. - **Growing the team**: Actively hiring across engineering (Rust, Solana, frontend), product design, and legal functions. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first culture**: Team operates fully remote, working US Eastern Time hours, allowing for flexible location arrangements. - **High agency, low ego culture**: The company explicitly seeks "customer obsession, high agency, and extreme ownership" — valuing impact over hierarchy. - **Cutting-edge blockchain work**: Employees work on one of the most widely used interoperability protocols in the industry, solving genuinely hard distributed systems problems. - **Diverse, global team**: Colleagues from quantitative trading, venture capital, and enterprise software backgrounds across the US, Europe, and Asia. - **Open-source impact**: Contributions are public, visible, and directly used by developers building on 30+ blockchains. - **Growth trajectory**: Small team (~12 people) with rapid growth — offering outsized ownership and impact for early employees. - **Current open roles** (as of mid-2025): Senior Product Engineer, Solana Protocol Engineer, Full-Stack Blockchain Engineer, Creative Director, General Counsel — indicating expansion across engineering, product, and leadership. ## Sources 1. [wormholelabs.xyz](https://www.wormholelabs.xyz/) 2. [LinkedIn - Wormhole Labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/wormholelabs) 3. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Careers](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz) 4. [Built In - Wormhole Labs Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/wormhole-labs-wormholelabsxyz/jobs) 5. [GitHub - Wormhole Labs](https://github.com/wormholelabs-xyz/) 6. 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