Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, real-time APIs using Rust, ensuring they meet the industry-pioneering performance and stability requirements of our users.
- Work closely with the team to develop new features, such as better interpretation layers, enhanced data decoding, and improved API coverage for various blockchain data.
- Work on performance improvements such as optimizing CPU usage, improving latency, and implementing caching strategies for better data fetching.
- Explore and implement cutting-edge data storage solutions, improvements, and future explorations.
- Focus on stability improvements, improving recovery processes, and enhancing the robustness of our real-time systems.
- Contribute to the internal developer experience by improving local test setups, integration tests, and incremental deployment processes.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience including 1 year of working with Rust.
- Have a deep understanding of systems programming concepts, particularly in high-performance or real-time applications.
- Are familiar with technologies like Parquet or similar and have experience optimizing data storage and retrieval processes.
- Know how to go deeper than “just use postgres” when building products.
- Have a strong ability to diagnose complex problems, particularly in distributed and real-time systems, and implement efficient solutions.
- Work well in a team environment, are comfortable discussing technical issues, and can effectively collaborate with other engineers to achieve common goals.
Nice to Have
- Enjoy tackling performance problems, optimizing CPU usage, reducing latency, and implementing efficient caching mechanisms.
- Enjoy working with customers and solving their problems.
- Are excited about exploiting old and exploring new ways to improve system performance and reliability.
- Leverage AI-driven tools and insights to optimize decision-making, streamline workflows, and enhance team productivity.
Benefits
- A competitive salary and equity package 🚀. Both salary and equity is top 25% of companies in the space
- Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window
- 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you) 🏖
- A fully remote-first approach 🧑💻 within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day
- Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard 🩺
- We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule
- Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹 and Athens 🇬🇷). On top of this 👆each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days.
- An allowance for your at-home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk.
- Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet! And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag! ✌️😎
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide)
Team
Team size: ~60 employees
Additional Information
- Say goodbye to meeting overload! We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings!
