Senior Rust Developer

We are looking for a Senior Rust Developer. Their goal is to advance computational biology by developing scalable, open-source workflow execution engines that empower scientists to efficiently deploy and manage large-scale computations.

- Location: Remote. Open to talents from GMT-8 to GMT+5 time zones. The client is not open to China, Australia or countries in similar time zones. - Overlap: 3 - 4 hours with Chicago/Texas (US Central Time) - Length: 6 months (with potential for extension)

Sprocket is an open workflow execution engine written in Rust-it enables scientists, who are generally not experts at scaling and deploying large-scale computation, to write simple workflow descriptions using the Workflow Description Language.

- Required Skills:

- Senior-level proficiency (6+ years) in Rust, with a strong track record of shipping production code - Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects - Familiarity with workflow engines, scientific computing, or large-scale computation - Ability to work with Rust crates for lexing, parsing, validating, linting, formatting, testing, and executing domain-specific languages - Strong skills in API design and specification development - Experience using GitHub for project planning and collaboration

- Optional Skills (not mandatory):

- Experience developing or improving specifications using OpenAPI (Swagger) - Familiarity with the Workflow Description Language (WDL) and Task Execution Schema (TES) - Experience with Kubernetes or cloud/HPC environments - Prior involvement with standards bodies (e.g., GA4GH) - Experience with Rust crates such as utoipa for OpenAPI/Swagger documentation

- Contribute to the development and enhancement of the Sprocket workflow execution engine and related Rust crates (e.g., wdl, sprocket, crankshaft) - Improve and extend the Workflow Description Language (WDL) specification, including proposing, drafting, and shepherding changes through the ratification process - Collaborate on the evolution of the Task Execution Schema (TES), including interaction with standards bodies and the open-source community - Develop and maintain reference implementations, ensuring comprehensive API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger) - Regularly communicate progress and coordinate with the internal computational biology team

- Full-time and long-term role - Opportunity to work on impactful, open-source technology used by scientists worldwide - Influence the direction of open standards in scientific workflow execution