Senior Rust Engineer

Summary

Join Syndica, a company building the Cloud of Web3, and become a Senior Engineer. You will collaborate with a team of passionate engineers to design, implement, and maintain high-performance, reliable web services for the Solana ecosystem. This role demands 5+ years of experience with lower-level languages (C/C++, Rust, Zig), expertise in building interpreters and virtual machines, and a strong understanding of WebAssembly. You will contribute to code, own core web services, and collaborate effectively with a large engineering team. Success will involve taking on independent responsibilities, mentoring junior engineers, and consistently delivering high-quality work.

Requirements

• Have 5+ years of related professional experience using lower-level languages (any combination of the following, C/C++/Rust/Zig)
• Have experience building interpreters, virtual machines, and open-source libraries/SDKs
• Have a solid understanding of WebAssembly(wasm) runtimes
• Proven experience in learning new tools and applying that knowledge to maximize performance, safety, time to deliver, and overall quality of work
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills (i.e. can synthesize complex problems)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant experience

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality web services and components in Rust that emphasize performance, reliability, maintainability, and readability
• Design, implement, and maintain core web services and components with a drive to always improve and iterate towards the best practical solutions
• Draw on past experience, existing knowledge, research, and collaboration to avoid pitfalls and balance tradeoffs between solutions to maximize results
• Leverage strong communication skills to break down complex ideas into simple terms and demonstrate a knack for collaboration across a large group of engineers

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked at a developer infrastructure company (i.e. Stripe, Coinbase Cloud, MixPanel, etc.)
• Proficient in web and network protocols (HTTP, TLS, DNS) and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana)
• Strong understanding of database engines (PostgreSQL, Clickhouse) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experienced with Kubernetes, Docker, and creating/maintaining CI/CD pipelines