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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.\n\nYou 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.\n\nWhat You Will Do\n\nDesign, build, and maintain the core components of our global compute platform in Rust.\n\nDevelop the scheduler and orchestration logic for deploying and managing WebAssembly workloads.\n\nBuild and optimize low-latency networking, service mesh, persistence layers, and load balancers.\n\nCollaborate on the operational strategy for a highly available, multi-region platform.\n\nWhat You Need\n\nProficiency in Rust and a strong passion for systems programming.\n\nAbility to work on diverse tasks in a fast-paced environment.\n\nDemonstrated experience or a deep interest in distributed systems, concurrency, and networking.\n\nStrong understanding of Linux fundamentals.\n\nDemonstrated 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.\n\nExcellent communication and teamwork skills.\n\nA self-driven and proactive attitude, comfortable in a startup environment.\n\nBased in CET timezone or within ±2h.\n\nBeneficial Skills\n\nStrong expertise on at least one low-level topic: kernel, drivers, GPU, compilers, assembly, garbage collection, filesystem...\n\nStrong knowledge of networking protocols and concepts.\n\nPreviously worked on implementing workload orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.\n\nPreviously worked on implementing workload isolation technologies such as hypervisors, containers, Firecracker, GVisor.\n\nPreviously worked on implementing distributed file systems.\n\nPreviously worked on implementing load balancers.\n\nPrevious work on cloud infrastructure.\n\nCompetitive salary and stock options.\n\nGenerous vacation policy.\n\nFlexible and or remote work policies.\n\nMonthly fitness stipend.\n\nMonthly stipend for open-source contributions.\n\nEconomic support for skills development, continuous learning, and attending conferences.\n\nTechnology Stack\nOur runtime stack is based mainly on Rust, WebAssembly and LLVM. 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