Software Engineer

Summary

Join Dune, a leading crypto data analytics platform, as a talented Rust Engineer to build and optimize the next generation of APIs. You will play a crucial role in developing high-performance, real-time systems powering crypto applications, working with cutting-edge technologies and directly impacting user experience. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining high-performance, real-time APIs using Rust, collaborating with the team on new features and performance improvements, and exploring innovative data storage solutions. You will also contribute to improving the internal developer experience and work on one of the fastest engineering teams in the industry. Dune offers a collaborative and inclusive work environment, encouraging applications even if your experience doesn't perfectly match all qualifications.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience including 1 year 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 products
• Enjoy tackling performance problems, optimizing CPU usage, reducing latency, and implementing efficient caching mechanisms
• Enjoy working with customers and solving their problems
• 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
• Are excited about exploiting old and exploring new ways to improve system performance and reliability

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, real-time APIs using Rust, ensuring they meet the industry-pioneering performance and stability requirements of our users
• Work closely with the team to develop new features, such as better interpretation layers, enhanced data decoding, and improved API coverage for various blockchain data
• 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
• Work on one of the fastest engineering teams in the industry