Solana Validator & Stake Pool Operator - Dragonfly Portfolio
MetaStable Capital
United States · Remote
Posted on Jun 13, 2025
Solana Validator & Stake Pool Operator - Dragonfly Portfolio
Remote • United States (Remote)
Portfolio
Remote
Full-time
Dragonfly is a crypto-native Venture Capital and research firm with $2B+ in assets under management and 160+ portfolio companies (see list). Our Talent team works to support the recruiting efforts of the companies within our portfolio by connecting them with talented potential candidates.
One of our portfolio companies is hiring a Solana Validator & Stake Pool Operator to 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.
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Req ID: R77
