Senior Rust Developer
Location: United States
Department: Toptal
Workplace: remote
Description
We are looking for a Senior Rust Developer. Their goal is to advance computational biology by developing scalable, open-source workflow execution engines that empower scientists to efficiently deploy and manage large-scale computations.
General Information
- Location: Remote. Open to talents from GMT-8 to GMT+5 time zones. The client is not open to China, Australia or countries in similar time zones.
- Overlap: 3 - 4 hours with Chicago/Texas (US Central Time)
- Length: 6 months (with potential for extension)
Project Information
Sprocket is an open workflow execution engine written in Rust—it enables scientists, who are generally not experts at scaling and deploying large-scale computation, to write simple workflow descriptions using the Workflow Description Language.
Requirements
- Required Skills:
- Senior-level proficiency (6+ years) in Rust, with a strong track record of shipping production code
- Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects
- Familiarity with workflow engines, scientific computing, or large-scale computation
- Ability to work with Rust crates for lexing, parsing, validating, linting, formatting, testing, and executing domain-specific languages
- Strong skills in API design and specification development
- Experience using GitHub for project planning and collaboration
- Optional Skills (not mandatory):
- Experience developing or improving specifications using OpenAPI (Swagger)
- Familiarity with the Workflow Description Language (WDL) and Task Execution Schema (TES)
- Experience with Kubernetes or cloud/HPC environments
- Prior involvement with standards bodies (e.g., GA4GH)
- Experience with Rust crates such as utoipa for OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
Deliverables
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of the Sprocket workflow execution engine and related Rust crates (e.g., wdl, sprocket, crankshaft)
- Improve and extend the Workflow Description Language (WDL) specification, including proposing, drafting, and shepherding changes through the ratification process
- Collaborate on the evolution of the Task Execution Schema (TES), including interaction with standards bodies and the open-source community
- Develop and maintain reference implementations, ensuring comprehensive API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
- Regularly communicate progress and coordinate with the internal computational biology team
Benefits
- Full-time and long-term role
- Opportunity to work on impactful, open-source technology used by scientists worldwide
- Influence the direction of open standards in scientific workflow execution
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