# Senior Software Engineer, Rust at Ditto

- Company: Ditto
- What the company does: Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: http://dittowords.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (Atlanta, Washington DC, San Francisco,
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $227K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ditto/38990212-86f6-4097-9111-39ba4194b653
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ditto-senior-software-engineer-rust/

## About the role

3+ years of systems-level Rust experience — You’ve built production-grade Rust libraries or systems. You’re comfortable with async programming and building reliable high-performance concurrent software. Data synchronization – You have experience building robust, decentralized sync systems using techniques such as content addressing, data deduplication, Merkle trees, probabilistic data structures, and state-based or delta-state CRDTs across heterogeneous peers.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years of systems-level Rust experience — You’ve built production-grade Rust libraries or systems. You’re comfortable with async programming and building reliable high-performance concurrent software
- Observability — You can identify and instrument the metrics, logs, and traces needed to visualize how data propagates through a mesh, diagnose production issues, and improve bandwidth utilization, reliability, and self-healing behavior
- Strong written communication — We’re an async-first, distributed team. Your design docs, RFCs, and code reviews are your primary communication tools. You can explain complex systems decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Customer empathy — You’re willing to engage directly with customers, debug production issues on their devices, and translate field experience into engineering improvements

Tags: Engineering