Wasmer
Rust Engineer, Distributed Systems
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Develop and maintain core components of a global distributed compute platform using Rust, focusing on scheduler and orchestration logic for WebAssembly workloads.
About the company
- At Wasmer, we work on the software that will power the next generation of computing platforms for local, cloud, and edge applications using WebAssembly. Similar to how Node.js enabled server-side JavaScript, we enable server-side WebAssembly for all supported languages like C/C++, Java, Go, Rust, and many others.
- Our mission is to make software universally available. We are committed to the open-source community and strive to contribute to developers and companies worldwide to help make Wasmer and WebAssembly a universal standard.
Responsibilities
- We are seeking a passionate Rust engineer to help us build and scale Wasmer Edge, our next-generation, globally distributed compute cloud powered by WebAssembly.
- Design, build, and maintain the core components of our global compute platform in Rust.
- Develop the scheduler and orchestration logic for deploying and managing WebAssembly workloads.
- Build and optimize low-latency networking, service mesh, persistence layers, and load balancers.
- Collaborate on the operational strategy for a highly available, multi-region platform.
Requirements
- You are fascinated by the challenges of building large-scale, distributed systems. You love working on reliable, high-performance, concurrent Rust code and want to apply your skills to the future of cloud and edge computing with WebAssembly.
- You thrive on tackling diverse tasks in a small, ambitious team and fast-paced environment You are a collaborative team player who enjoys solving complex problems in a fast-paced environment.
Conditions
- Competitive salary and stock options.
- Generous vacation policy.
- Flexible and or remote work policies
- Monthly fitness stipend.
- Monthly stipend for open-source contributions.
- Economic support for skills development, continuous learning, and attending conferences.
Other
- #Role: Rust Engineer, Distributed Systems #Type: Full-time #Location: Remote, CET ±2h
- Proficiency in Rust and a strong passion for systems programming.
- Ability to work on diverse tasks in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated experience or a deep interest in distributed systems, concurrency, and networking.
- Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals.
- Demonstrated 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- A self-driven and proactive attitude, comfortable in a startup environment.
- Based in CET timezone or within ±2h
- Experience operating large-scale, multi-region distributed systems.
- Strong expertise on at least one low-level topic: kernel, drivers, GPU, compilers, assembly, garbage collection, filesystem, …
- Strong knowledge of networking protocols and concepts.
- Previously worked on implementing:
- - workload orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
- - workload isolation technologies (hypervisors, containers, Firecracker, GVisor...).
- - distributed file systems.
- - load balancers.
- Previous work on cloud infrastructure