Rust Engineer-federal

About the position:

Our ideal candidate has professional experience designing and building Rust APIs and libraries. Particular experience working with cross-compilation and FFI is a bonus. At Ditto Federal, we have no shortage of hard technical problems, such as mesh networking, replication protocols, CRDTs, and database design, just to name a few. Additional experience in any of these areas is a plus.

You will work collaboratively with our small but growing Federal team to deliver cutting edge cross-platform SDKs that work on mobile devices, IoT and autonomy systems, and enterprise/tactical servers with ever greater networking and data synchronization capabilities. We are investing heavily into Rust as we aim to create libraries, services and applications in support of our Federal mission. Our core networking and mesh logic lives in Rust but must be flexible to work across various OS or hardware systems - creating a common overlay network to reliably and quickly transmit data.

We are a wholly remote team, but customer engagements and globally-fielded capabilities require occasional travel. Ditto is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, skill sets, and perspectives, and to providing our employees with a rewarding and inclusive work environment. 

What you'll do:

• Improve and create new features for Ditto's data sync platform components 
• Optimize networking protocols for low bandwidth transports – e.g., forward error correction, routing, UDP multicast, etc.
• Integrate new protocols and communication technologies into the Ditto network stack 
• Test with radios or transmission systems to represent a variety of environments, including space and underwater  
• Develop new algorithms to enable self-organizing meshes, scaling from two devices to thousands 
• Develop frameworks for autonomy and collaborative communications systems 
• Optimize for quality-of-service requirements - prioritization, aggregation, and security 
• Develop extensive tests to improve the quality and automation of deployments 
• Mentor and share knowledge with team members 
• Some travel (~25%) to visit customer sites, support field exercises, attend conferences

What you'll need:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Engineering
• Deep understanding of operating systems concepts and implementation.
• Strong knowledge of the Rust language, ecosystem, and tools
• Desire to gain expertise in development and maintenance of APIs and libraries, including FFIs
• Strong knowledge of networking principles and protocols 
• Experience developing and debugging distributed systems 
• Excellent written communication skills 
• Interest in building technology that supports federal agencies' missions
• U.S. citizenship and active security clearance or willingness to gain one

Nice to haves:

• Experience writing code for asynchronous runtimes.
• Experience with Bluetooth and other non-IP radio technologies
• Experience with broker-based messaging systems
• Experience with distributed and streaming data systems