Rust Engineer, Distributed Systems

Wasmer; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and stock options

Generous vacation policy

Flexible work policies

Fitness stipend

Stipend for open-source contributions

Support for continuous learning and conferences

Job summary

A cutting-edge technology company is seeking a Rust Engineer to join their team focused on building and scaling innovative global compute solutions. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in Rust and systems programming, alongside responsibility for developing and optimizing components for a distributed platform. Working in a fast-paced startup environment, you will collaborate with a dedicated team to tackle complex problems and contribute to the advancement of cloud computing using WebAssembly. Flexible working arrangements and competitive benefits are included.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience required.
• Experience in building large-scale distributed systems is beneficial.
• Strong expertise in low-level topics preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain core components of a global compute platform.
• Develop scheduling and orchestration for WebAssembly workloads.
• Optimize low-latency networking and load balancing.

Skills

Proficiency in Rust

Distributed systems knowledge

Concurrency

Networking concepts

Linux fundamentals

Communication skills

Teamwork

Proactive attitude

Job description

#Role: Rust Engineer, Distributed Systems #Type: Full-time #Location: Remote, CET ±2h

About The Role

We are seeking a passionate Rust engineer to help us build and scale Wasmer Edge, our next-generation, globally distributed compute cloud powered by WebAssembly.

About Us

At Wasmer, we work on the software that will power the next generation of computing platforms for local, cloud, and edge applications using WebAssembly. Similar to how Node.js enabled server-side JavaScript, we enable server-side WebAssembly for all supported languages like C/C++, Java, Go, Rust, and many others.

Our mission is to make software universally available. We are committed to the open-source community and strive to contribute to developers and companies worldwide to help make Wasmer and WebAssembly a universal standard.

About You

You are fascinated by the challenges of building large-scale, distributed systems. You love working on reliable, high-performance, concurrent Rust code and want to apply your skills to the future of cloud and edge computing with WebAssembly.

You thrive on tackling diverse tasks in a small, ambitious team and fast-paced environment. You are a collaborative team player who enjoys solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and maintain the core components of our global compute platform in Rust.
• Develop the scheduler and orchestration logic for deploying and managing WebAssembly workloads.
• Build and optimize low-latency networking, service mesh, persistence layers, and load balancers.
• Collaborate on the operational strategy for a highly available, multi-region platform.

What You Need

• Proficiency in Rust and a strong passion for systems programming.
• Ability to work on diverse tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience or a deep interest in distributed systems, concurrency, and networking.
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals.
• Demonstrated 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A self-driven and proactive attitude, comfortable in a startup environment.
• Based in CET timezone or within ±2h

Beneficial Skills

• Experience operating large-scale, multi-region distributed systems.
• Strong expertise on at least one low-level topic: kernel, drivers, GPU, compilers, assembly, garbage collection, filesystem, …
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols and concepts.
• Previously worked on implementing:

1. workload orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
2. workload isolation technologies (hypervisors, containers, Firecracker, GVisor...).
3. distributed file systems.
4. load balancers.

• Previous work on cloud infrastructure

Benefits

• Competitive salary and stock options.
• Generous vacation policy.
• Flexible and or remote work policies
• Monthly fitness stipend.
• Monthly stipend for open-source contributions.
• Economic support for skills development, continuous learning, and attending conferences.