Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of core edge services that power Ditto's mesh-based systems.
• Build software that manages peer discovery, multi-hop communication, and routing across unreliable or dynamic networks.
• Design clean, efficient APIs that allow higher-level applications to interact with the mesh layer.
• Develop and maintain the Ditto Edge Server, a lightweight deployment optimized for small infrastructure footprints, enabling seamless integration with Ditto's edge-based systems through exposed APIs.
• Contribute to protocol design, transport abstraction, and system-level performance improvements.
• Collaborate with other engineers and product teams to deliver end-to-end features that reach real-world users.

Requirements:

• 2–5 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Solid background in backend or systems-level development.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Rust, C++, Go or similar.
• Experience designing and consuming APIs for service-to-service communication.
• Understanding of high-level communication protocols like HTTP, WebSockets, and similar.
• Comfort working with distributed systems or edge-deployed services.
• Ability to reason about concurrency, performance, and fault-tolerant architectures.
• Strong collaboration skills as you'll work cross-team particularly closely with product and relevant team engineers spread across the globe.

Nice to Haves:

• Familiarity with networking concepts like routing protocols, transport layers, and peer-to-peer communication.
• Familiarity with Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)
• Experience implementing or working with communication protocols.
• Some experience with or high level of interest in Rust.
• Strong written communication skills (as we operate asynchronously and value well-structured design docs).
• Willingness to travel once per quarter for in-person team gatherings.