Requirements
- Systems-level Rust experience (3+ years) — You've built production-grade Rust libraries or systems. You're comfortable with unsafe, FFI boundaries, async runtimes, and reasoning about memory layouts and performance at the microsecond level.
- Observability and telemetry design experience — You've designed or significantly contributed to instrumentation, logging, metrics, or tracing systems. You understand the tradeoffs between signal granularity and overhead, and you've thought about what makes telemetry useful, not just voluminous. Experience with OpenTelemetry is a strong plus.
- Library/SDK development mindset — You've built software that other developers consume as a dependency. You think about API design, backward compatibility, developer experience, and the principle that your library is a guest in someone else's application.
- Cross-platform and FFI fluency — The Rust core ships via FFI to Swift, Kotlin, C#, JavaScript, and more. You need to be comfortable working across language boundaries and understanding how your Rust code behaves when called from a different runtime.
- Strong written communication — We're an async-first, distributed team. Your design docs, RFCs, and code reviews are your primary communication tools. You can explain complex systems decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Customer empathy — You're willing to engage directly with customers, debug production issues on their devices, and translate field experience into engineering improvements.
Nice to Have
- Android/Kotlin or mobile platform experience
- Experience with embedded databases, data sync, or offline-first architectures
- Background in developer tooling or developer experience teams
- Networking fundamentals: TCP/UDP, Bluetooth Low Energy, mesh networking
- Open-source contributions in relevant ecosystems (Rust observability, FFI tooling, cross-platform SDKs)
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- We offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We believe everyone on the team should have a stake in what we’re building. Benefits vary by region to make sure you're covered in the ways that matter most. In the US, that includes health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus a 401(k) and flexible spending accounts. Regardless of where you live, everyone at Ditto can utilize flexible time off. And while we work remotely, our Atlanta and San Francisco offices are open if you ever want a place to work or meet up with teammates.
