About the role

We are looking for someone with a background in systems programming, or programming language runtimes, to help build Our company's next generation of Edge infrastructure. You will closely collaborate with our Platform and SRE engineers, as well as our Developer Experience team to enable the next million developers using Our company.

You’ll own major components of our Edge infrastructure, designing the architecture, writing code and tests, and analyzing data and consumer feedback. In doing so, you’ll regularly engage with our customers, WebAssembly runtime implementers, and W3C working groups.

 

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

·         Engaging with the WebAssembly Working Group and other standardization bodies.

·         Bringing WebAssembly to new use cases for Our company’s customers.

·         Working with other members of the CTO Office to drive the future of our Edge platform.

·         Helping other teams building Our company's infrastructure to keep up with our growth.

·         Staying up to date with the development of Internet protocols and new research in the academic field.

·         Contributing to Open Source projects like Apache TrafficServer, Wasmer, and Lucet.

 

Some characteristics that we look for when hiring for this role:

·         Interpersonal skills and the ability to translate complex solutions and features into delightful experiences for our customers.

·         At least 2 years of experience developing in languages such as Rust, C++, or C.

·         Experience in systems programming, language design and implementation, or similar domains.

·         Familiarity with the Chromium project and the Node.js ecosystem.

·         Understanding of core networking concepts, like HTTP, TCP/IP, TLS.

·         Curiosity to learn and guide new Internet protocols, like QUIC.