Senior Rust Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the development and enhancement of the Sprocket workflow execution engine along with related Rust crates (such as wdl, sprocket, crankshaft).

• Enhance and broaden the Workflow Description Language (WDL) specification by proposing, drafting, and guiding changes through the ratification process.

• Collaborate on the advancement of the Task Execution Schema (TES), engaging with standards organizations and the open-source community.

• Develop and maintain reference implementations while ensuring thorough API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger).

• Regularly update progress and collaborate with the internal computational biology team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Senior-level expertise (6+ years) in Rust, with a proven history of delivering production code.

• Experience in contributing to or leading open-source initiatives.

• Knowledge of workflow engines, scientific computing, or large-scale computations.

• Proficient in working with Rust crates for lexing, parsing, validating, linting, formatting, testing, and executing domain-specific languages.

• Strong capabilities in API design and specification development.

• Familiarity with using GitHub for project planning and collaboration.

• Experience in developing or enhancing specifications utilizing OpenAPI (Swagger).

• Acquainted with the Workflow Description Language (WDL) and Task Execution Schema (TES).

• Experience with Kubernetes or cloud/HPC environments.

• Previous participation with standards bodies (e.g., GA4GH).

• Experience with Rust crates like utoipa for OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full-time and long-term position.

• Opportunity to engage with impactful, open-source technology utilized by scientists globally.

• Ability to shape the future of open standards in scientific workflow execution.