Senior Rust Engineer full-time fmd
Senior Rust Engineer full-time fmd
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Job Description
Who we are
Phoenix R&D is a European messaging technology company founded in 2022. We the team behind it have been active in the area of secure messaging in both industry and academia for over 10 years.
As a remotefirst company Phoenix R&D is headquartered in Berlin where we regularly meet and where we are embedded in a community of cryptographers opensource software enthusiasts information security professionals journalists and activists.
What we do
Our goal is to define and build an open technological foundation for the next generation of privacypreserving messaging applications.
We are coauthors of the new internet standard Messaging Layer Security (MLS) which is at the core of our research and development around secure messaging. We are founding members of various IETF working groups where we collaborate with likeminded parties from academia and industry to develop internet standards with privacy and security in mind.
Among other things we are working on a modern messaging application for a range of target groups. To reach and empower as many developers and users as possible the technology we develop is opensource focusing on thorough documentation and userfriendliness. Our explicit goal is to develop a community of contributors and users that helps us build the next generation of private and secure messaging.
What we are about
We are driven by the belief that technology should serve a meaningful purpose be fun to use safe and secure and free and accessible to people. We favor shared analyzed standards over homebrewed solutions open protocols over silos controlled by a small number of entities and opensource software over proprietary code.
We strive to cultivate an environment of respect and open communication that allows everyone involved to feel safe and to speak their mind both of which are especially important when working primarily remotely.
We believe diversity is an asset and aim to build a team of people from different backgrounds. In particular we encourage people from groups that are typically underrepresented in the technology space to apply.
We recognize that to achieve excellence in what we do we need room to grow both personally and professionally. Our goal is to create an environment of collaboration and sharing of expertise and experience as well as selfdependent work.
Tasks
We are looking for a senior Rust engineer to help us build various components of our messaging application and adjacent projects for the next generation of private & secure messaging.
At this stage we are a small team. This means that on the one hand you will be required to work on your own and take responsibility for individual projects. On the other hand you will review the work of others and guide your teammates with your expertise. Both of these points require excellent communication skills and the ability to work well in a team.
Requirements
- You are enthusiastic about secure and private messaging
- No expertise in security/privacy is required but you are curious and willing to expand your knowledge in this area
- You have written and deployed software to a production environment
- You have extensive experience with Rust
- You like working with network stacks databases and state machines
- You are familiar with setting up and maintaining CI/CD systems
- You work well in a remotefirst team and have excellent communication skills
- You live in a place that is compatible with European working hours
Benefits
- Remote work on a flexible schedule
- Annual profitsharing bonus
- 36h week / Meetingfree Friday
- 30 days of paid leave per year
- Work equipment
- Opportunity to shape our technology choices
- Work in a highly relevant and dynamic field
Employment Type
Full Time
