About Instant Domains

Instant Domains is building a modern, mobile-first, ICANN-accredited domain registrar from scratch in Rust. We help people grow an audience that they own.

About the role

Skills:Rust, Torch/PyTorch

Instant Labs is hiring a senior Rust engineer to help build a marketplace for creator content. We help brands find compelling content and we help creators earn money from the content they've created.

We encourage a technical environment that values community and collaboration. As a team, we enjoy learning from each other and contributing to the open-source community. Our founding team knows that forming exceptional, inclusive teams is about balance. Our flexible workplace values families and personal growth.

In order to better serve our (prospective) customers, we're looking to hire someone who can help build machine-learning features that help search, classify and repurpose audio and video content. While many of these features are being prototyped in Python, we prefer to productionize our features in Rust and don't mind building at the frontier of what the Rust ecosystem has to offer (for example, see ourinstant-distance crate).

The Job

Experienced Rust engineer
Comfortable with Python and Jupyter notebooks
We contribute back to the open source community

Our Technology

Rust + GraphQL + PostgreSQL + NVidia's Triton + PyTorch + GCP + AWS
https://github.com/instant-labs (more open source coming!)

Location & Compensation

Remote, +/- 3 hours of CET
$100,000-$200,000 USD-equivalent + equity

Team

We are a team of 12
Dirkjan, CTO, major open source contributor to Rust,https://github.com/djc
Beau, CEO, early Facebook growth engineer:https://www.linkedin.com/in/hartshorne/
Raised a 3.75M USD seed round in 2022 fromY Combinator,Slow Ventures and others
Low tolerance for assholes, relaxed about working together and excited to work hard to help our customers

Technology

We are building our infrastructure in Rust, and use GraphQL to connect to our NextJS/React UI built in TypeScript.

Interview Process

First option: consulting agreement

In an ideal world, we'd love to work with you for a few weeks on a substantial project (maybe one of our open source projects) to feel out how the interaction is working. That way, we could both have a better sense if you are a fit with our team.

Second option: interview process

Meeting with the hiring manager (CTO). This will not go into much technical depth, but will discuss our needs, your motivation and some of your past experience.
If we're both happy, we can move forward with a work sample test. You can pick your choice of a live discussion or an asynchronous assignment (which would not take more than about 3 hours).
Meeting with the CEO to discuss your team fit, with more behavioral questions.
Meeting with another engineer on the team to discuss system design.

Meetings should take at most 1 hour, with ample time for questions from your side.

Instant Domains remote jobs

Experienced Rust/AI Engineer