Senior Rust Developer
12 hours ago
New York
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) ___ 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. • Required Skills:, • Senior-level proficiency 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), • 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, • 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