Software Engineer, Data APIs

Summary

Join Dune's team of talented engineers and contribute to building high-performance APIs using Rust.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience including 6+ months of working with Rust
• Have a deep understanding of systems programming concepts, particularly in high-performance or real-time applications
• Are familiar with technologies like Parquet or similar and have experience optimizing data storage and retrieval processes
• Know how to go deeper than “just use postgres” when building software
• Enjoy tackling performance problems, optimizing CPU usage, reducing latency, and implementing efficient caching mechanisms
• Have a strong ability to diagnose complex problems, particularly in distributed and real-time systems, and implement efficient solutions
• Work well in a team environment, are comfortable discussing technical issues, and can effectively collaborate with other engineers to achieve common goals

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, real-time APIs using Rust
• Work closely with the team to develop new features
• Work on performance improvements such as optimizing CPU usage, improving latency, and implementing caching strategies for better data fetching
• Explore and implement cutting-edge data storage solutions, improvements, and future explorations
• Focus on stability improvements, improving recovery processes, and enhancing the robustness of our real-time systems
• Contribute to the internal developer experience by improving local test setups, integration tests, and incremental deployment processes

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package
• Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
• 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you)
• A fully remote-first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day
• Private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard
• Paid parental leave (16 weeks to primary caregivers and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid)
• Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team
• A yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days
• An allowance for your at-home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive