Senior Staff Performance Engineer - Remote

Worldwide Remote Banyan is a startup based in NYC, focused on decentralized storage and generally making the internet less bad. We're massive fans of the local-first software movement. We are very in favor of people having sovereign ownership over their data- we're rolling usable tech out to normal people to support these technologies getting more market share.

Our mission is to put data under the control of the user and push computation and coordination to the edge where possible. We believe this will improve users' experiences and make the internet a better place in many ways. We're venture backed and have solid runway - about to annouce our series A.

We have relationships with a large number of Filecoin miners and are rolling our software out into their datacenters for both Filecoin-based cold storage and custom Banyan hot storage. For now, we're focused on releasing and selling a decentralized, local-first, and encrypted cloud storage product that could rival Dropbox or Backblaze. We are looking for a Senior/Staff Rust Backend Engineer (fully IC role). a permanent and high-performing IC right hand to our head of engineering (assuming they're more mid-level), or, someone VERY senior with domain-specific expertise, who is capable of gearing up to lead a division of engineering when we diversify our product offerings in 2024.

They will have experience with backend eng in Rust, plus understand content-addressing and encryption/authentication basics. Any FAANG background is a huge bonus and so is cloud storage experience. We'd be over the moon about hiring you if you are very senior, very ready to work as hard as we do, and have some CDN, browser, cryptography, payment channels, or low-level low-latency networking experience.

Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend and client-side services written in Rust. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features. Ensure code quality, performance, and reliability.

Provide technical leadership, help mentor junior engineers. Work closely with the product and sales/BD people to align on the requirements and constraints of the backend architecture. (seldom) Answer questions to aide teammates in writing technically-informed documents or performing integrations. Ship high-assurance software!

Qualifications Must-Have ** 8+ years of experience in backend development. ** Experience with RESTful API design and implementation. Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design. Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of tasks and projects.

Independently/internally/personally driven by our mission of making the internet better by breaking up cloud silos. ** Low ego/asshole factor, amicable, passes the proverbial "beer test". Nice-to-Have/bonuses ** Experience with WebAssembly (WASM) and Rust-WASM, but has done things besides this. Experience with CDN, browser stacks, cryptography, payment channels, or low-level low-latency networking.

Experience with other backend technologies and frameworks. Contributions to open-source projects. Benefits Competitive/above-market salary and equity.

Health, dental, life, and vision insurance. Flexible work schedule and remote work options.