Windows Platform Engineer, Nym
C++ / Rust
Privacy infrastructure to prevent data leakage
Open for applications
Privacy infrastructure to prevent data leakage
21-100 employees
Open for applications
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable digital privacy for all humanity.
Role
Who you are
- Solid professional experience developing Windows desktop software
- Strong knowledge of Rust, good experience with C++
- Experience integrating native libraries with frontend frameworks like Tauri or Electron
- Deep understanding of Windows internals, especially networking, registry, firewall, and process-level security
- Experience with EV code signing, MSI/NSIS packaging, and driver distribution
- Familiarity with Windows debugging tools (ProcMon, Wireshark, Event Viewer)
- Comfortable working with GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and modern development workflows
Desirable
- Experience with C# and .NET (we use Tauri)
- Prior experience working on VPNs, low-level networking tools, or privacy-focused apps
- A strong security mindset and awareness of how Windows threat models differ from other OSes
- Passion for privacy and belief in the mission of protecting users from surveillance
What the job involves
- Nym is building the most secure VPN in the world, combining the privacy power of a mixnet with the speed and accessibility of WireGuard
- We’re looking for an experienced Windows/C++ Engineer with strong Rust knowledge to take our NymVPN app to the next level
- From network integration to packaging and installer improvements, you’ll help shape how privacy feels on Windows
- Develop and maintain Windows native integrations for our desktop NymVPN application, ensuring performance, security, and privacy
- Ensure the Windows app stays fully compatible with evolving Windows releases and system policies
- Support with the maintenance of the delivery pipeline for Windows builds, including EV code signing and driver packaging
- Maintain and extend low-level networking functionality including WireGuard, kill switch logic, and tunneling behavior
- Troubleshoot Windows-specific issues across the stack—from UI to kernel-level networking bugs
- Address security issues flagged in audits or bug bounty reports
- Collaborate closely with other platform engineers to align code structure, UX, and performance across macOS, Linux, and mobile clients
- Evaluate and migrate from NSIS to a more native Windows installer experience (e.g., MSIX or custom wizard)
- Long-term: Lead efforts to rewrite parts of the app in native Windows (outside Tauri) where performance or OS integration benefits warrant it
- Long-term: Rewrite the firewall integration written in C++ into Rust
- In Your First Month, You Might:
- Take full ownership of all Windows-specific development and troubleshooting for the NymVPN desktop app
- Work with Rust and C++ libraries, integrating them with the Tauri-based client
- Fix critical bugs, compatibility issues, and regressions introduced by recent Windows updates
- Implement low-level networking features like a system-level lockdown mode, permissions and custom firewall rules
- Ensure proper EV signing for all Windows binaries and drivers
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Privacy was not a priority when the internet's core infrastructure was originally built. Now, however, internet privacy has been a matter of growing importance and there is much opportunity for B2B and consumer-facing privacy tech.
Nym aims to end the era of surveillance capitalism by creating an open-source, decentralized, and permissionless privacy system. Unlike other options that enhance privacy on the network level like VPNs, Tor, and I2P, Nym uses its proprietary technology based on mixnet, private credentials, and incentives to obscure metadata tracking at a network level and thus guarantee against data leakage.
Nym’s platform has a potentially wide range of use cases — not all of them in crypto. It could, for example, be used by messaging app Signal to scramble packets connected to communication. The company is setting out to become the best technology for securing web browsing and in line with this vision, it will use its recent investment to issue grants to developers and incentivize them to build on top of Nym's decentralized infrastructure.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2024
$0.2m
GRANT
Nov 2021
$13m
SERIES A
Total funding: $21.7m
Company benefits
- IT Infrastructure: We strive for excellence on a daily basis, your hardware shouldn't hold you back
- Generous Annual Leave Allowance: We are actively anti-burnout at Nym
- Market Leading Compensation: We want everyone to be able to afford to live the life they want outside of work
- Fully Remote/Flexi Working: Work when you want, how you want as long as key deadlines are hit
Company HQ
Neuchâtel, NE
Leadership
Harry Halpin
(CEO)Previously Project Co-ordinator at Inria, and Senior Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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