Software Engineer, Data APIs

September 3

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Description

• Dune is pushing the boundaries of real-time data processing, looking for a talented Rust Engineer to build APIs. • As an engineer on DevX, you’ll develop high-performance, real-time systems that power crypto applications. • You’ll work on cutting-edge technologies directly impacting user experience. • Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, real-time APIs using Rust, ensuring performance and stability requirements of users. • Work closely with the team to develop new features like better interpretation layers, enhanced data decoding, and improved API coverage for blockchain data. • Work on performance improvements such as optimizing CPU usage, improving latency, and caching strategies. • Explore and implement cutting-edge data storage solutions and improvements.

Requirements

• 4+ years experience including 6+ months of working with Rust. • Have a deep understanding of systems programming concepts, particularly in high-performance or real-time applications. • Are familiar with technologies like Parquet or similar and have experience optimizing data storage and retrieval processes. • Know how to go deeper than “just use postgres” when building software. • Enjoy tackling performance problems, optimizing CPU usage, reducing latency, and implementing efficient caching mechanisms. • Have a strong ability to diagnose complex problems, particularly in distributed and real-time systems, and implement efficient solutions. • Work well in a team environment, are comfortable discussing technical issues, and can effectively collaborate with other engineers to achieve common goals. • Are excited about exploiting old and exploring new ways to improve system performance and reliability.

Benefits

• A competitive salary and equity package 🚀. • Our employee equity scheme has world-class employee-friendly terms with a heavily discounted strike price (~90%) and a 10-year exercise window • 🏖 5 weeks PTO + local public holidays (that can be swapped to suit you) • 🧑‍💻 A fully remote-first approach within a distributed team with flexible working hours; you structure your own day • Say goodbye to meeting overload! We believe in a healthy mix of async and sync work, so you can focus on what truly matters—no more wasted time on endless meetings! • Good health is important, so we offer private medical insurance, dental & vision as standard🩺 • We believe in paid parental leave 👶 to help you celebrate this important milestone, transition to your new life, and bond with your new baby. We offer 16 weeks to primary caregivers and 6 weeks to secondary caregivers, fully paid. Plus a 2-week part-time phased return at full pay to help you get used to your new (and slightly more complex!) schedule • Quarterly offsites in various exciting locations as a company or team to connect, work together and have fun (so far in Tuscany 🇮🇹 Berlin 🇩🇪 Austria 🇦🇹and Athens 🇬🇷). • On top of this 👆each person gets a yearly travel allowance to connect and co-work with someone or a team of people for a few days. • An allowance for your at-home setup, to ensure you are happy, comfortable and productive. If you prefer a local co-working space, we’ll pay for your desk. • Work with some of the best people you’ll ever get to meet! • And of course, you get some awesome Dune swag! ✌️😎