What you'll do:

Work closely with a small team shipping lots of codeWrite Rust and RubyAdd features to and improving our push delivery serviceWork on native Rust extensions to our Rails applicationOpen source contributions - we have contributed patches to several crates and released one of our own. We aspire to do more of this as time progressesContribute to our stats monitoring process (Rust) which runs on all of our serversArchitect solutions to address our scaling needsDesign and build a custom message queue

Skills and experience:

3+ years of experience writing software for distributed systemsExperience writing with a statically typed language such as Rust, C++, etcSolid understanding of web service architecture, systems and how they fit together such as: http clients, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, CDNs, application servers (ex. Rails), databases, and cachesOpen to learning and writing Rust and GoProficiency in written and oral communicationsAbility to collaborate well on a teamFriendliness and empathyModestyCan deliver solutions independentlyLove of learning

Preferred skills and experience:

Experience extending an interpreted language with native codeFamiliarity with Redis, PostgreSQL and KafkaProficiency with Linux systemsFamiliarity with POSIX C APIsUnderstanding of how multiplexed I/O worksAgain, these are nice-to-haves. Even if you don't know them, we hope you are interested in learning them!