Senior Rust Software Engineer

Who we are looking for

• You are an exceptional engineer.
• You are a problem solver. You start customer problems and figure out how to solve them with technology.
• You think differently. You do not accept the status-quo. You challenge the current model of the world and take leaps of faith to build it better for everyone.
• You are positive. Instead of focusing on limitations, you ask what’s possible. 
• You care about meaningful work. Your work is more than a job. 
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and unknowns, and in these situations, you lead by creating clarity. 
• You are passionate about high performance and have high standards.

What we're looking for

• At least 2 years professional experience with Rust or 3+ years professional experience in C/C++
• Experience in designing, implementing, scaling and shipping production distributed and data systems.
• A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering and product decisions.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
• Ideally experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, and cloud-native development, and ideally with Rust/Golang.

Your responsibilities

• An outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project.
• Creating, designing, and building the distributed and data systems architecture of the Spice.ai Cloud Platform, our cloud systems, and spicerack.org.
• Take ownership and drive initiatives for improving the product.

Your first 90-days

• Your first month - ramp up and contribute improvements to the Spice.ai project
• 30-60 days - contribute to weekly Spice.ai releases
• 60-90 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area