Subspace Labs Careers

We are seeking an Executive Assistant to join our rapidly growing team of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and blockchain engineers. We are building the Subspace Network, a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain that scales far beyond existing designs. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and will be launching as a sovereign layer-one blockchain early next year. Subspace Labs is a venture-backed startup with a globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website and read the technical whitepaper.

As the Executive Assistant to the CEO you will primarily be responsible for managing day to day operational tasks of our CEO in order to maximize his efficiency and remove any administrative blockers. In this role you will wear many hats and function across multiple departments and teams. You will report to the Head of Operations and will contribute directly to the success of our project.

This is a great opportunity for a rising professional who will be supporting a CEO for the first time, and is hungry to uplevel their skills and work collaboratively on establishing best practices.

Note: Candidates working in North American Pacific Time preferred.

In this position you will:

• Manage a complex calendar of globally distributed events and meetings on a day-to-day basis, prioritizing and coordinating ever-changing schedules.
• Coordinate heavy travel arrangements; booking flights, coordinating itineraries and accommodations, managing rental car bookings.
• Assist with presentations, preparing slides, reviewing content and coordinating speakers for various internal and external events.
• Provide full administrative to support the CEO, maintain organizational priorities, remove blockers, and act as a liaison between other members of the leadership team.
• Support the CEO at various internal and external meetings

Key Requirements:

• Experience supporting Executive-level leadership in a fast-paced startup.
• Able to operate and execute in a highly autonomous way with minimal supervision.
• Bias for action and strong critical thinking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, attention to detail, and time management skills.
• Experience managing complex calendar systems, heavy travel calendars and coordinating with an international team.
• Ability to travel internationally and frequently, up to 1x per month for 3-4 days at a time (occasionally up to a week).
• Ability to use discretion and work under a significant degree of confidentiality.
• Experience working with tools such as Google Suite and Slack.

Bonus Experience:

• Experience working in a Web3 or open source organization.
• Experience supporting an Engineering leader or CTO.
• Experience working with tools such as Notion, Monday, Trello, Asana, Lucid, and Figma

What We Offer:

• A remote work environment with a high degree of autonomy and agency.
• You will play a critical role in implementing a new layer one blockchain.
• Salary and options befitting an early hire at a venture-backed startup.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• Company-sponsored team offsites in various locations around the world.

Who We Are

Subspace Network is building a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain which allows developers to easily run Web3 apps at Internet scale. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and plans to launch its Network later this year. Subspace Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a remote-first, globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website, view our team handbook, and read the technical whitepaper.

We are seeking a Lead Full-Stack Engineer to complement our product engineering team. Responsibilities include facilitating the engineering management process across our product application teams in addition to contributing to several user-facing apps (wallet, block explorer, CLI, desktop app), integrating with other blockchain networks and decentralized protocols, maintaining a developer SDK, and building decentralized apps that demonstrate the potential of the Subspace Network.

In this role you will:

• Collaborate directly with the Head of Product to translate our product roadmap into actionable engineering implementation plans.
• Identify the key tasks and critical path, anticipating potential roadblocks.
• Build user flows across both web and backend (React and Node).
• Integrate directly with other blockchain networks using native RPCs.
• Drive detailed project definition and cross-functional alignment.
• Design and architect backend REST and/or GraphQL APIs.

Key Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building open-source code that is clean, maintainable, and well-tested, for production networks at scale.
• 2+ years of experience leading engineering teams in blockchain, crypto, or Web3.
• 2+ years of experience working with Typescript and Node.js.
• 2+ years of experience of experience with Ethers/Web3.js or Polkadot.js.
• 2+ years of experience working with React.js and Node.js.
• Theoretical knowledge of blockchains and distributed systems.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker.
• A passion for decentralized, peer-to-peer systems and Web3 technologies.

Bonus Experience:

• Experience with the Rust programming language.
• Familiarity with Substrate and the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Experience building developer SDKs and internal tools.
• Experience writing smart contracts in Solidity or similar language.
• Experience working with the Tauri desktop application framework.

What We Offer:

• Work remotely from anywhere in the world with a talented team of globally distributed individuals.
• A competitive salary with generous equity and token grants.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US based only).
• A unique opportunity to shape the future of the Subspace Network and play a critical role in building the world’s most scalable blockchain.
• Company-sponsored team offsites in various locations around the world.

Who We Are

Subspace Network is building a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain which allows developers to easily run Web3 apps at Internet scale. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and planning to launch its Network later this year. Subspace Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a remote-first, globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website, view our team handbook, and read the technical whitepaper.

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our rapidly growing team of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency enthusiasts and engineers.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Operating and maintaining of backend blockchain infrastructure of the Subspace Network on top of bare metal services, VMs and Kubernetes clusters.
• Following principles of infrastructure as code to make operations well defined and maintainable.
• Ensuring reliable operation through monitoring and observability.
• Educating and enabling the rest of engineering team with automation of CI/CD and other development workflows.
• Sustaining good site reliability practices with incident response and postmortem analysis

Key Requirements:

• Rich experience working with Linux servers, networking, virtualization and containerization technologies.
• Experience setting up and operating production Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines and Linux bare metal servers.
• Familiarity with cloud-native landscape of tooling and experience of successfully deploying them to production environments (Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics+Grafana, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Solid understanding of blockchains and successful experience of maintaining of blockchain node (bootstrap, RPC, validator) infrastructure.
• Be proactive, willing to help engineers so stay productive in fully-remote setting.
• Knowledge of at least one programming language.
• A passion for decentralized, peer-to-peer systems and Web3 technologies.

Bonus Experience:

• Familiarity with the Rust and TypeScript languages and their tooling.
• Familiarity with Substrate and the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Active participation in Open Source development of DevOps/SRE-related tooling, presenting at conferences and meetups.

What We Offer:

• A globally distributed work environment with a high degree of autonomy and agency.
• You will play a critical role in implementing a new layer one blockchain.
• Salary and options befitting an early hire at a venture-backed startup.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• Company-sponsored team offsites in various locations around the world.

Who We Are

We are building the Subspace Network, a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain that scales far beyond existing designs. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and will be launching as a sovereign layer-one blockchain early next year. Subspace Labs is a venture-backed startup with a globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website, view our team handbook, and read the technical whitepaper.

We are seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer to join our rapidly growing team of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and blockchain engineers. In this role, you will use your technical expertise to establish methods and techniques, plan tests, develop test requirements, write test procedures and reports, and conduct tests that utilize comprehensive knowledge of complex subsystems within the Subspace Network. You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and will contribute directly to the success of our project.

In this position you will:

• Design and execute test plans.
• Create and automate test casesRun regression tests.
• Record and document results and compare them to expected results.
• Determine the best methods to measure results from tests in order to detect software failures so that issues may be discovered and corrected.
• Design reliable and deterministic testsExamine and execute code in various environments.
• Manage code and asset integrations across multiple branches.
• Resolve integration conflicts alone or in coordination with software engineers.

Key Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience as a software tester in a Layer 1 blockchain context.
• 2+ years of experience with a systems programming language (Rust, C/C++, Go).
• Deep understanding of blockchain technology, including cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, and consensus protocols.
• Experience with automated software testing tools and scripting for deterministic tests.
• Experience implementing testing in CI/CD pipelinesFamiliarity with the entire software development life cycle.
• Capable of automating and optimizing frequent tasks.
• A passion for decentralized, peer-to-peer systems and Web3 technologies.

Bonus Experience:

• Familiarity with Substrate and the Polkadot ecosystem.
• Active participation in Open Source development.

What We Offer:

• The ability to work with a globally distributed team from anywhere in the world.
• A competitive salary with generous equity and token grants.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• A unique opportunity to shape the future of the Subspace Network and grow into a long-term leadership role at Subspace Labs. 
• Team offsites in various locations around the world.

Who We Are

We are building the Subspace Network, a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain that scales far beyond existing designs. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and will be launching as a sovereign layer-one blockchain sometime in the next year. Subspace Labs is a venture-backed startup with a globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website, view our team handbook and read the technical whitepaper.

We are seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our rapidly growing team of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and blockchain engineers. In this role, you will provide structure to and facilitate the process of turning technical requirements into production software. You will report directly to the Head of Engineering and will contribute directly to the success of our project.

In this position you will:

• Work with our protocol and product engineering teams to add process and structure to the larger project lifecycle across all layers of our stack.
• Coordinate the documentation of product requirements and technical specifications.
• Establish a process for Subspace Improvement Proposals (SIPs) and Subspace Release Candidates (SRCs) similar to the EIP/ERC process.
• Lead the creation and maintenance of public engineering roadmaps in Github.
• Work with engineering and product to convert technical requirements into well-defined tasks.
• Oversee the task lifecycle from backlog to release.
• Collaborate with engineers in setting and meeting timelines.
• Transparently communicate with all stakeholders regarding the current status of the various projects.

Key Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience as a project, program, or technical product manager for an open-source blockchain project.
• 2+ years of experience working with remote-first  globally distributed teams.
• Deep understanding of blockchain technology, including cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, and consensus protocols.
• Thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle from conception to delivery, and various project management methodologies.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously in an open-source way.
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to gather and document requirements from multiple stakeholders.
• A passion for decentralized, peer-to-peer systems and Web3 technologies.

Bonus Experience:

• Knowledge of at least one programming language.
• Familiarity with Substrate and the Polkadot ecosystem.

What We Offer:

• The ability to work with a globally distributed team from anywhere in the world.
• A competitive salary with generous equity and token grants.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• A unique opportunity to shape the future of the Subspace Network and grow into a long-term leadership role at Subspace Labs. 
• Team offsites in various locations around the world.

Who We Are

Subspace Network is building a radically decentralized, next-generation modular blockchain which allows developers to easily run Web3 apps at Internet scale. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation. Subspace Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a remote-first, globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website and read the technical whitepaper.

We seek a veteran community manager with a global mindset and proven experience in managing 100k+ community members to join our rapidly growing team as the Head of Community. As an experienced leader in managing and empowering communities across many regions, you will be responsible for guiding the existing community team in fostering a highly engaged, inclusive, and thriving community on a global scale. You will oversee various initiatives from community office hours to social media content and initiatives like Twitter Spaces. You are not expected to be a marketing guru, but we believe a great community leader will have the best insights into what the audience is interested in reading. You will also play a vital role in the global community growth strategies, including our Global Ambassador program.

In this role you will:

• Guide the existing community team in building the best-in-class environment for a thriving and engaging community
• Help lead the Global Ambassador program (targeting 500+ ambassadors worldwide in the coming two years)
• Assist regional growth initiatives across EU, APAC, CIS, and LATAM regionsHelp coordinate community events and major milestones activation, including social media content planning

Key Requirements:

• Deep understanding of the crypto ecosystem
• At least 3 years of full-time experience in leading community management and growth
• Previous work experience managing and growing massive communities (100k+)
• Experience organizing Webinars, Office Hours, AMAs (Ask Me Anything), and Twitter Spaces
• Experience using Discord and Telegram for community coordination
• Strong written communication skills and English proficiency

Bonus Experience:

• Demonstrated experience in handling community crises
• Prior experience with a layer one blockchain or infrastructure protocol project

Who We Are

We are seeking a Compliance Manager to join our rapidly growing team of cryptocurrency enthusiasts and blockchain engineers. We are building the Subspace Network, a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain that scales far beyond existing designs. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and will be launching as a sovereign layer-one blockchain early next year. Subspace Labs is a venture-backed startup with a globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website and read the technical whitepaper.

The Role

In this role, you will manage compliance and finance-related initiatives for the Subspace Network. You will report directly to the Director of Operations, Finance & Compliance and will have the freedom to further define your role as the team grows.

In this role you will:

• Help to establish and maintain non-profit foundations in Europe and Asia.
• Maintain the equity/token cap tables for investors and employees.
• Prepare the company for future fundraising rounds (Ser A).
• Execute due diligence, AML and KYC programs for investors
• Assist in future private and public token sales, via IDO, ICO and/or IEO.
• Consult with legal in performing in-depth compliance assessments.
• Standardize and optimize policies, procedures and internal controls.
• Supplement the efforts of the accounting and finance department.

Key Requirements:

• 1-2 years professional experience in the crypto space.
• Knowledge of the formation and operational requirements for foundations.
• Prior experience with fundraising.
• Working knowledge of operational finance and corporate accounting.
• Able to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment, while remaining long-term focused in designing policies and processes.
• Able to work independently, learn quickly and drive results with minimal supervision.

Bonus Experience:

• Experience managing private and public token sales.
• Experience in leading Compliance teams to manage high growth in a fast-paced organization.
• Knowledge of accounts payable/receivable and general ledger accounting.

What We Offer:

• The ability to work from anywhere in the world.
• A competitive salary with generous equity and token grants.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.A unique opportunity to shape the future of the Subspace Network and grow into a long term leadership role at Subspace Labs.
• Team offsites in various locations around the world.

Who We Are

Subspace Network is building a radically decentralized, next-generation modular blockchain which allows developers to easily run Web3 apps at Internet scale. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation. Subspace Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a remote-first, globally distributed team.

To learn more, visit our website and read the technical whitepaper.

The Role

We are seeking a Recruiting Coordinator to join our rapidly growing team of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency enthusiasts and engineers. As our Recruiting Coordinator you will primarily be responsible for managing the hiring pipeline across all departments at Subspace Labs. You will report directly to the Director of People and will ultimately be responsible for supporting our strategic hiring process.

In this role you will:

• Manage the inbound hiring pipelines through our ATS.
• Collaborate with Hiring Managers to define the hiring needs, key responsibilities and ideal candidate profiles. 
• Share new roles with our recruiter network and develop the relationships and pipelines within those networks. 
• Maintain ownership of our JD database and Job Boards; update our listings, craft new Job Descriptions as needed, and ensure consistency across all platforms. 
• Build interview pipelines, develop interview questions, train team members on best practices and facilitate feedback. 
• Track hiring metrics and report weekly on pipeline and progress updates. 
• Standardize hiring processes across roles at Subspace Labs through centralizing candidate and recruiter communication, creating transparency across pipeline statutes and improving organizational outreach.

Key Requirements

• 1+ Years of experience working in the Web3 or open source space in a hiring capacity.
• Excellent interviewing skills with the ability to screen for both general and cultural-add. 
• Experience managing an ATS platform, preferably Lever. 
• Experience working in a globally distributed, remote-first, high-growth team. 
• You must be self-motivated, tenacious, and driven, operating with a high sense of urgency while working effectively within a team environment.

What We Offer:

• A remote work environment with a high degree of autonomy and agency.
• You will play a critical role in implementing a new layer one blockchain.
• Salary and options befitting an early hire at a venture-backed startup.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• Company-sponsored team offsites in various locations around the world.

We are seeking a People Operations Manager to join our rapidly growing team of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency enthusiasts and engineers. We are building the Subspace Network, a radically decentralized, next-generation blockchain which allows developers to easily run Web3 apps at Internet scale. Subspace is based on original research funded by the US National Science Foundation and planning to launch its Network later this year. Subspace Labs is an early-stage, venture-backed startup with a remote-first, globally distributed team. To learn more, visit our website and read the technical whitepaper.

As our People Ops Manager you will primarily be responsible for supporting the People Operations team and overall employee experience. You should exemplify our core values of decentralization, inclusiveness, and fairness.

In this role you will:

• Oversee new hire onboarding; setting up team members in our payroll system, handling I-9’s, managing tooling access, acting as a point of contact and partner for all questions and ensuring new team members have everything they need to be successful in their first few weeks.
• Build, improve and maintain People Operations policies for all departments and teams.
• Assist with recruiting efforts by managing candidate interview schedules, following up with Hiring Managers, keeping our ATS updated and engaging with our external recruiters as needed.
• Coordinate and execute on team offsite logistics and planning throughout the year.
• Design and implement remote team events, recognize internal celebrations, and create opportunities for team engagement.

Key Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in related field.
• 2+ Years of relevant People Operations experience.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, early-stage startup.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.​​
• High degree of autonomy and confidentiality.

Bonus Experience:

• Experience working in Web3 or open-source.
• Experience working in a remote-first engineering environment.
• Experience working with a globally distributed team.
• Experience with international employment laws, PEO’s, or EOR’s.

What We Offer:

• A remote work environment with a high degree of autonomy and agency.
• You will play a critical role in implementing a new layer one blockchain.
• Salary and options befitting an early hire at a venture-backed startup.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (US-based only).
• Company-sponsored team offsites in various locations around the world.