Rust Jobs in Crypto, Web3 & Blockchain

Responsibilities

As a RUST Developer you will be an internal part of our protocol team and contribute to our two blockchains (Litentry and TEE Sidechain). Your main responsibility will be to support the research and implement within our parachain’s workstream.

• Implement the pallets based on Substrate and inside Intel SGX
• Contribute to the WASM runtime development
• Fix the bugs in our testnet and mainnet
•  Write the technical documentation
• Research the latest secure computing technologies

Requirements

• Solid computer science background
• 4+ year experience with RUST programming or very strong C++ experience required
• An interest in decentralized technology and Web 3
• Good knowledge of Ethereum or other blockchain technologies
• Familiarity with Substrate and Polkadot, and experience in Intel SGX
• You are a quick learner and problem solver
• Ability to communicate effectively in English

Nice to Haves

• Experience with W3C DID / cryptography / zero knowledge proof
• Being an open-source contributor
• Having participated in hackathons

Benefits

• A competitive salary & personal development package
• The unique opportunity to shape a fast-growing blockchain start-up
• The option to work from home or in one of our shared office spaces
• Flexible working hours
• A work laptop of your choice
•  Autonomy of work – we trust you and we want you to work in the way that’s most productive for you
• A super friendly and international team

Where We Work

We are a Remote First company. Most of our team members choose to work from their homes. However, we currently also offer employees to use our shared office spaces in Berlin, Hangzhou or Munich, if they live in one of these cities and prefer to work in an office setting. We are open to hiring people who would like to work from countries within the time zones UTC to UTC+10.

Diversity

We celebrate a truly diverse and inclusive company culture and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

About The Role

As part of the Ecosystem team, you will be responsible for partnering with external customers and internal customers on building novel and capable smart contracts across one or more programming languages.  You will also be working closely with the programming languages team to prioritize and co-develop programming language improvements and tweaks and also build and improve tools for development.  These applications will have an emphasis on quality, safety, and interoperability with other Aptos tools. The scope, as it currently stands, is open-ended, but some projects will be likely from the following areas: governance, tokenomics, decentralized finance, games, social.

What you'll be doing:

• Writing smart contracts in one or more programming languages that provide new and powerful functionality for a variety of internal and external applications
• Developing tooling for smart contract development and deployment
• Guiding and onboarding new developers into the ecosystem
• Develop and maintain high quality software engineering practices and principles in a highly visible open-source project

What we're looking for:

• 7+ years of experience as a hands-on software engineer
• Experience with a low-level programming languages such as Rust, Go, Swift, or C/C++
• Interest or familiarity in “smart contract” languages such as Move and Solidity
• Code auditing experience

About Codex

We’re a diverse team of experienced researchers and engineers scattered around the world working at the intersection of P2P networks and bleeding-edge Zero Knowledge technology. We’re building the next generation storage engine that attempts to “untie the knot” of incentivized storage. Our goal is to deliver a more advanced decentralized storage protocol that pushes the state of the art of decentralized storage solutions forward. We’re looking for an experienced p2p networking engineer with hands-on experience designing and implementing state of the art networking protocols and distributed systems.

Key responsibilities

• Research,design and implement proof systems for remote auditing schemes
• Implement zk friendly hashing functions
• Familiarity with state of the art proving backends such as arkworks, bellman, etc…
• Write specifications and design documentation
• Document and communicate research findings to the wider community
• Perform security analysis, measure performance of and debug circuits

You ideally will have

• Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience
• Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#)
• Experience with Open Source software
• Deep understanding of Zero-Knowledge proof systems and corresponding tooling 
• Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers.
• Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology
• A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Bonus points

• Experience and interest in decentralized storage and p2p technologies
• Experience designing and implementing zk-friendly hashing functions
• Experience with WebAssembly tooling

[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:

1. Interview with People Ops team
2. Interview with Codex team member
3. Pair programming task w/ Codex team member
4. Interview with Codex team member
5. Interview with Codex Program Lead

Compensation

The expected compensation range for this role is $120,000 - $150,000 (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.

About Status 

Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3.  With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute. As an organization, Status seeks to push the web3 ecosystem forward through research, creation of developer tools, and support of the open source community.  As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. But Status is also building foundational infrastructure for the whole Ethereum ecosystem, including the Nimbus ETH 1.0 and 2.0 clients, the Keycard hardware wallet, and the Waku messaging protocol (a continuation of Whisper). As a team, Status has been completely distributed since inception.  Our team is currently 150+ core contributors strong, and welcomes a growing number of community members from all walks of life, scattered all around the globe.  We care deeply about open source, and our organizational structure has minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

Who are we? 

Vac builds public good protocols for the decentralized web. We do applied research based on which we build protocols, libraries and publications. Custodians of protocols that reflect a set of principles - liberty, privacy, etc. You can see a sample of some of our work here: Vac, Waku v2 and Ethereum Messaging, Privacy-preserving p2p economic spam protection in Waku v2, Waku v2 RFC. Our attitude towards ZK: Vac <3 ZK. The role? This role will be part of a new team that will make a provable and private WASM engine that runs everywhere. As a compiler engineer, you will be responsible for researching, designing, analyzing and implementing zero-knowledge circuits that allow for proving private computation of execution in WASM. This includes having a deep understanding of relevant ZK proof systems and tooling (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo 2, zk-STARK, etc), as well as different architectures (zk-EVM Community Effort, Polygon Hermez and similar) and their trade-offs. You will collaborate with the Vac Research team, and work with requirements from our new Logos program. As one of the first hires of a greenfield project, you are expected to take on significant responsibility, while collaborating with other research engineers, including protocol engineers and senior Rust engineers. Key responsibilities 

Analyze and implement proof systems and architectures for private computation Design and implement zero knowledge circuits in Rust Perform security analysis, measure performance of and debug circuits Write specifications and communicate research findings through write-ups Break down complex problems, and know what can and what can’t be dealt with later

You ideally will have 

Experience with compilers, VMs, domain-specific languages Familiarity with Zero-Knowledge Proofs (zk-SNARK, circom, Plonk/Halo2, zk-STARK), elliptic curve cryptography, and circuit design Experience with low level/strongly typed languages (C/C++/Go/Rust or Java/C#) Very strong academic or engineering background (PhD-level or equivalent in industry); relevant research experience Keen communicator, eager to share your work in a wide variety of contexts, like internal and public presentations, blog posts and academic papers. Experience with Open Source software Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology A strong alignment to our principles: https://status.im/about/#our-principles

Bonus points if 

Experience with hardware instruction set architectures Experience in provable and/or private computation (zkEVM, other ZK VM) Rust Zero Knowledge tooling Experience with WebAssembly

[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]. Compensation We pay a competitive salary based on experience, plus a grant of Status Network Tokens vesting over a three-year period. More info on SNT here here: https://status.im/snt-utility/ Hiring process The hiring process for this role will be:

Interview with Angel from our Talent team Interview with team member from the Vac team Pair programming task with the Vac team Interview with Oskar, the Program lead Interview with Jacek, Research 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.  

As part of the Blockchain team, you will be responsible for building the most production-grade L1 for everyone. You will work on initiatives from performance, reliability, scalability, decentralization, and incentives to enable the many safe and scalable applications to thrive. These projects will have an emphasis on quality, safety, and interoperability with other Aptos tools. The scope, as it currently stands, is open-ended, but some projects will be likely from the following areas: governance, tokenomics, decentralized finance, games, social.

What you'll be doing:

• Design core, backend software components, and code primarily using Rust that support a blockchain and its ecosystem of systems
• Use extensive experience to build, test, debug, and deploy large-scale decentralized systems across thousands of nodes
• Work with file systems, execution engines, programming language design, and consensus protocols to complete complex engineering challenges such as scaling up performance and reducing transaction latency
• ​​Develop and maintain high-quality software engineering practices and principles in a highly visible open-source project

What we're looking for:

• 3 years (ideally 5+ years) of experience as a hands-on software engineer
• Expertise in networking, consensus protocols, parallel execution, storage, authenticated data structures, and/or caching
• Experience with a low-level programming language such as Rust, Go, Swift, or C/C++

About The Role

Our team is actively building a leading cryptography organization in order to solve complex problems involving mathematics, establishing standards and guidelines for safe use of cryptographic code, advancing the state of cryptography both within and outside Aptos. We have open roles for both junior and senior engineers, and for researchers in this space.

What you'll be doing:

• Define cryptography principles and best practices within the Aptos blockchain and ecosystem.
• Establish cryptographic standards by writing Aptos Improvement Protocols (AIPs).
• Evaluate cryptographic libraries for their safety and performance.
• Design, implement, maintain and audit cryptographic schemes, such as  signature schemes, authenticated data structures, secret sharing, distributed pseudo-random functions, and zero-knowledge proofs
• Publish research work to top conferences
• Contribute across the Rust Blockchain code stack, the Move framework, and many of the SDKs (e.g., Typescript, Python, Rust)
• Work closely with engineering and partner teams.

What we’re looking for:

• Prior experience in cryptography or security
• Experience programming in Rust, TypeScript (JavaScript), or Python
• Familiarity with smart contracts
• Ability to write technical documentation and specifications
• Fluent in English