Rust Distributed Systems Engineer

WalletConnect

Job Description

WalletConnect is the open-source web3 standard to connect blockchain wallets to dapps. Any wallet, any dapp, any chain. Starting in 2018, our mission is to make web3 accessible to everyone. Every month, millions of people use WalletConnect in thousands of integrations. We raised ~$25M from venture investors including 1kx and Coinbase as well as from customers such as Shopify and Circle. We are growing fast both in terms of features and users.

To learn more about our plans for 2.0, take a look at our presentation at EthCC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cBIw7lFNnU

The Role

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Cloud team which is responsible for the entire backend at WalletConnect. As a member of the Cloud team you will deliver new software in Rust, Typescript, and Go and deploy it to AWS, CloudFlare, GCP, and others. You will instrument and operate the software using Prometheus, Grafana, and Opsgenie. You, in tandem with your teammates, will be in charge of maintaining the system. You will write proposals for new features, apps, and bug fixes and when present those proposals to your team mates, across teams, or the entire company depending on the scope.

Some of the software is or will be decentralized.

Responsibilities:

Conceptualize new features and share your ideas concisely in written form and collect peer feedback
Write new and improve existing software in Rust (some software in Python,Typescript)
Build and deploy infrastructure using Terraform/AWS/Grafana/Opsgenie/Prometheus
Plan and implement metrics/monitors and operate the Cloud team’s services

Requirements

Must have:

Experience in Rust is a must, TypeScript/Go experience is a plus
Strong networking skills
Strong AWS (or other cloud provider) experience and Terraform/CDK/equivalent is a plus
Experience in monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Datadog, CloudWatch, or other
SQL skills (PostgreSQL preferred)
Solid Linux and networking skills
Demonstrated experience with managing production services
Experience in decentralized systems and libraries e.g. libp2p is a plus

Benefits