Rust Jobs for Rustaceans

About Vac
Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralized web.
We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries and publications.
This role is within the the Vac Incubator Project “Nescience”, which is developing a state separation architecture with selective privacy.

About the Role
In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining our Rust code base, transforming research prototypes into production and collaborating with researchers, prototyping ideas, measuring performance, and conducting code reviews, and shaping engineering culture.
Your responsibilities will include planning, implementing, and shipping end-to-end functionality in monthly release sprints. As well as profiling bottlenecks, hardening cryptographic components, and writing property-based tests.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable with modern cryptography, familiar with zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) and experienced with blockchain or other peer-to-peer systems, and motivated by decentralisation and privacy.

Key responsibilities

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

You ideally will have

• 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.

Bonus points if:

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

[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].

The hiring process for this role will be:

1. Interview with our POps team
2. Interview with Nescience team lead
3. Pair programming task with the Nescience team
4. Interview with Vac team lead

The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.