Senior Rust Engineer

Summary

Join Vac, a builder of public good protocols for the decentralized web, and contribute to the Nescience project, developing a state separation architecture with selective privacy. Maintain and expand our Rust codebase, transforming research prototypes into production-ready solutions. Collaborate with researchers, prototype new ideas, measure performance, conduct code reviews, and shape engineering culture. Responsibilities include planning, implementing, and shipping end-to-end functionality in monthly sprints, profiling bottlenecks, hardening cryptographic components, and writing property-based tests. The ideal candidate possesses strong Rust, cryptography, and blockchain experience, along with a passion for decentralization and privacy. Compensation is negotiable and can be paid in fiat or crypto.

Requirements

• 4-5 Years of Rust experience
• Experience writing asynchronous code in Rust using Tokio
• Solid understanding of cryptography
• Understanding, how zkVM’s work
• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology
• A strong alignment to our principles

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain Rust code base
• Develop new solutions based on research output
• If necessary, participate in research

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing code using libp2p
• Worked with RISC0
• Participated in building blockchain projects