Logos
Senior Rust Engineer (Nescience)
Job Summary
This role involves maintaining and developing a Rust-based codebase for a project focused on decentralisation, privacy, and cryptography. The candidate will collaborate with researchers, implement research prototypes, and contribute to the development of blockchain and peer-to-peer systems. Responsibilities include end-to-end feature development, performance optimization, cryptographic hardening, and code reviews. The role requires experience in Rust, cryptography, and blockchain technology, with an emphasis on decentralization principles.
Required Skills
Benefits
Job Description
Logos is a movement supporting the development of the decentralised web. Logos technologies lay the foundations for a freer internet upon which communities can evolve into network states. Each protocol in the Logos stack seeks to empower its users while upholding civil liberties and fundamental freedoms.
About Vac
Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralized web.
We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries and publications.
This role is within the the Vac Incubator Project “Nescience”, which is developing a state separation architecture with selective privacy.
The role
In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining our Rust code base, transforming research prototypes into production and collaborating with researchers, prototyping ideas, measuring performance, and conducting code reviews, and shaping engineering culture.
Your responsibilities will include planning, implementing, and shipping end-to-end functionality in monthly release sprints. As well as profiling bottlenecks, hardening cryptographic components, and writing property-based tests.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable with modern cryptography, familiar with zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) and experienced with blockchain or other peer-to-peer systems, and motivated by decentralisation and privacy.
Key responsibilities
- Write and maintain Rust code base.
- Develop new solutions based on research output.
- If necessary, participate in research.
You ideally will have
- 4-5 Years of Rust experience.
- Experience writing asynchronous code in Rust using Tokio.
- Solid understanding of cryptography.
- Understanding, how zkVM’s work.
- Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
- A strong alignment to our principles.
Bonus points if
- Experience writing code using libp2p.
- Worked with RISC0.
- Participated in building blockchain projects.
[Don’t worry if you don’t meet all of these criteria, we’d still love to hear from you anyway if you think you’d be a great fit for this role. Just explain to us why in your cover letter].
Hiring process
The hiring process for this role will be:
- Interview with our POps team
- Interview with Nescience team lead
- Pair programming task with the Nescience team
- Interview with Vac team lead
The steps may change along the way if we see it makes sense to adapt the interview stages, so please consider the above as a guideline.
Compensation
The expected compensation range for this role is negotiable, dependent on how we assess your skills and experience throughout our interview process. We are happy to pay in any mix of fiat/crypto.
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