Rust Software Engineer, Wasmer
+ 0.10% - 0.30% Equity
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Open-source WebAssembly coding platform
Open for applications
Open-source WebAssembly coding platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
+ 0.10% - 0.30% Equity
More information about location
1-20 employees
Company mission
To contribute to developers and companies around the world reaching their full potential.
Role
Who you are
- Skills: Git, Rust, Bash/Shell
- You are a highly-skilled Rust Engineer and want to work on the software that will power the next generation of Cloud and Edge Computing platforms using WebAssembly
- Proficiency in Rust or C, C++ development
- Experience developing and working with WebAssembly, WASI, and Emscripten
- Expertise with POSIX, sockets, and memory management
- A strong sense of self-motivation and love working with a high level of ownership and responsibility
- Demonstrated experience in developing Open Source infrastructure software and tools
- A positive and respectful attitude
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Demonstrated ability to dive into and work with large codebases
- Strong abstraction, algorithmic, and software architecture skills
- For our runtime our stack is based mainly on Rust, WebAssembly and LLVM. However, if you have experience with low-level systems languages (such as C, C++, Zig, ...) you will fit on the role perfectly
What the job involves
- At Wasmer we are working on the software that will power the next generation of Cloud Computing platforms using WebAssembly
- Similarly to Node.js, we are moving WebAssembly to the server-side but completely emancipated from JavaScript
- We are seeking a skilled Rust Engineer with industrial-strength software engineering skills to help us enable WebAssembly on any infrastructure compiled from any programing language
- 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
- Maintain, architect, and build next-generation infrastructure to support WebAssembly applications like WebAssembly containers, storage, networking, orchestration, etc
- Work on open-source and commercial products that support developer and enterprise customer requirements
- Write tests and implement automated testing for backend services to deliver a high-quality user experience
- Be the Rust and WebAssembly domain expertise and proactively communicate ideas for improvement or identify potential vulnerabilities
- Build strong and trusting partnerships with product management to ensure that engineering is in lock-step and aligned with the product vision
Our take
Wasmer, founded in 2018, is a platform for running WebAssembly (Wasm) code flexibly on a range of different platforms. WebAssembly, the language-flexible alternative to JavaScript, is moulded by Wasmer into a collection of products and suites on which web developers can run the coding language dubbed “the future of the internet” through the cloud.
Though a small team, Wasmer have been busy since being awarded seed funding in 2021, the following year having released Wasmer 3.0. This update makes Wasm files functionable on Windows, Linux and Mac, and gets rid of runtime dependency.
Though Wasmer’s products are popular among Wasm specialists, the coding language is still in its infancy compared to Javascript. This will limit the amount of clients Wasmer can attain at present. In time though, the company can grow as the coding language, mostly used for content distribution networks on the web, gains more popularity. As a faster and more efficient alternative to Javascript, Wasmer’s products may be slow burn but have the potential to skyrocket when the internet catches up.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (1 round)
Aug 2019
$0.2m
SEED
Total funding: $0.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible and or remote work policies
- Health coverage
- Monthly fitness stipend
- Monthly stipend for open-source contributions
- Economic support for skills development, continuous learning, and attending conferences
Company values
- Empowerment - The more each of us can shine, the better for the team, the company and Wasmer's users and collaborators. Freedom and responsibility work together. Wasmer trusts every team member is qualified to make convenient decisions in their area. Wasmer enforces self-development, ownership and autonomy.
- Innovation and Disruption - Wasmer is curious, it is creating and thinking out of the box. It challenges the status quo. Wasmer tries to see beyond the seeming limitations. Let's cultivate unrestricted thinking.
- Simplicity - Let's make things easy. In Wasmer's environment it needs to be dynamic and pragmatic: fast is better than perfect. It can get to the essence of the process/task/feature and prioritize steps to provide a better experience for users/partners/workmates
- Excellence - Excellence as a dynamic concept refers to giving Wasmer's best in every moment. This habit leads us to constant improvement. We are continuously creating a framework which supports this value at every level of the organization.
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Syrus Akbary
(CEO)Previously Founder & CEO at Graphene, CTO at Try.com, Fullstack Engineer at Affirm, Inc, Senior Software Engineer at Chegg, Inc.
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