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About The Role 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. About Us 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. About You 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. What You Will Do • 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. What You Need • 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 Beneficial Skills • 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, and load balancers. • Previous work on cloud infrastructure Benefits • 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.