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title: "Rust Developer"
tags:
  - "role"
  - "engineering"
  - "rust"
---

# Role: Rust Developer
at Status

Remote, Worldwide

**About Status**

Status is an organization building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. We have been completely distributed since inception. Our team is currently 100+ 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 a minimal hierarchy and no fixed work hours. We believe in working with a high degree of autonomy while supporting the organization's priorities.

**About Logos**

A group of Status Contributors is also involved in a new community lead project, called Logos, and this particular role will enable you to also focus on this project. Logos is a grassroots movement to provide trust-minimized, corruption-resistant governing services and social institutions to underserved citizens. 

Logos’ infrastructure will provide a base for the provisioning of the next-generation of governing services and social institutions - paving the way to economic opportunities for those who need them most, whilst respecting basic human rights through the network’s design.You can read more about Logos here: [in this small handbook](https://github.com/acid-info/public-assets/blob/master/logos-manual.pdf) for mindful readers like yourself.

**Who are we?**

We are the Blockchain Infrastructure Team, and we are building the foundation used by other projects at the [Status Network](https://statusnetwork.com/). We are researching consensus algorithms, Multi-Party Computation techniques, ZKPs and other cutting-edge solutions with the aim to take the blockchain technology to the next level of security, decentralization and scalability for a wide range of use cases. We are currently in a research phase, working with models and simulations. In the near future, we will start implementing the research. You will have the opportunity to participate in developing -and improving- the state of the art of blockchain technologies, as well as turning it into a reality.

**Responsibilities:**

-   Develop and maintenance of internal rust libraries
-   1st month: comfortable with dev framework, simulation app. Improve python lib?
-   2th-3th month: Start dev of prototype node services

**Ideally you will have:**

-   “Extensive” Rust experience (Async programming is a must)  
    Ideally they have some GitHub projects to show
-   Experience with Python
-   Strong competency in developing and maintaining complex libraries or applications
-   Experience in, and passion for, blockchain technology.
-   A strong alignment to our principles: [https://status.im/about/#our-principles](https://status.im/about/#our-principles)  
    

**Bonus points if**

-    E.g. Comfortable working remotely and asynchronously
-    Experience working for an open source organization.  
-    Peer-to-peer or networking experience

_[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!]_

**Compensation**

We are happy to pay in either 100% fiat or any mix of fiat and/or crypto. For more information regarding benefits at Status: [https://people-ops.status.im/tag/perks/](https://people-ops.status.im/tag/perks/)

**Hiring Process** 

The hiring process for this role will be:

1.  Interview with Maya (People Ops team)
2.  Interview with Corey (Logos Program Owner)
3.  Interview with Daniel (Engineering Lead)
4.  Interview with Jarrad (Cofounder)