Principal Rust Software Engineer

Summary

Join Spice AI as a Principal Rust Software Engineer and contribute to the development of cutting-edge AI applications and agents. You will work closely with founders on the Spice.ai open-source project, designing and building high-performance AI features for Spice.ai OSS and the Spice.ai Cloud Platform. This role requires extensive experience in Rust or C/C++, distributed systems, and a proven track record of successful software development. You will be responsible for taking ownership of initiatives, improving offerings, and delivering exceptional developer experiences. Spice AI offers a competitive salary, a guaranteed bonus, and startup equity.

Requirements

• 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience
• Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production distributed and data systems
• A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running

Responsibilities

• Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project
• Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, and data platforms
• Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences
• Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project
• 30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area
• 60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward

Preferred Qualifications

• Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects
• Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang

Benefits

• $205,000 - $250,000 a year
• In addition to the base salary of up to $250,000/year, a guaranteed bonus of up to $50,000/year and competitive startup equity is offered for this position
• The equity range for this role is 0.5% - 1.50%