Software Engineer, Rust

PDQ, founded in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, makes device management simple, secure, and Pretty Damn Quick through our products Deploy, Inventory, Connect, Detect, SimpleMDM and SmartDeploy. IT teams use our products to reduce complexity, improve efficiency, and enhance control in their unique environments. We are backed by TA Associates and Berkshire Partners, top-tier global private equity firms.

PDQ's Core Values: Honesty, Ownership, Collaboration and Improvement

Job Description:

Before you apply, please note:

• This is a remote role open to candidates residing in Romania.
• Please provide a link to a recent Rust-based code sample (GitHub or other open source project) with your application.

As a Software Engineer working with Rust at PDQ, you will be crucial to developing and maintaining PDQ products, especially our cloud product, Connect. As a member of the engineering team, you will have various responsibilities, including implementing new functionality, eliminating bugs, maintaining our code, and growing as an engineer. You will be involved across the entire product lifecycle, from ideation through building, testing, deploying, monitoring and supporting critical systems.

What you'll be doing:

• Developing new features and improvements to our Rust-based Windows and Mac service
• Work within CI/CD delivering code as a team daily
• Collaborate with teams to deliver on project priorities
• Work with customers and team members on technical issues including software outages, security risks, maintenance, deployment, customer support tickets
• Conduct research and prototype efforts with autonomy
• Exchange constructive, respectful and frank code reviews with your peers

We're looking for people who have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related degree, or equivalent experience
• Experience developing Rust applications with Tokio or multithreaded concurrency patterns
• Experience developing cross-platform applications for Windows and macOS (our Rust code runs on both)
• Proven ability to build reliable, fault-tolerant networked applications using HTTP and WebSockets
• 4+ years of experience working on a variety of professional software development projects
• Agile development experience
• Experience engaging with open-source projects and communities

Who you are:

• Ownership: You take responsibility for projects, drive results, and deliver on commitments
• Honesty: You demonstrate integrity, transparency, and ethical behavior in all interactions
• Collaboration: You work effectively with cross-functional teams and foster a culture of teamwork
• Improvement: You continuously seek opportunities for growth, innovation, and personal development
• Passionate about delivering business value by applying your engineering skills
• Experience building clean and simple solutions at scale
• Possess strong analytic, technical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively through written or verbal medium
• Knowledge of Git version control and branching strategies
• Defensive security strategies for both client and server-side web systems
• Strong ability to create lightweight proposals, diagrams, specifications, and other analyses from user requirements
• Excellent debugging skills and pragmatic design experience
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Ability to read code and quickly make sense of an unfamiliar codebase
• Ability to understand a problem space and make code changes safely

Benefits

PDQ offers all of the great perks and benefits you’d expect from working at a very cool tech company, and some you might not expect, including:

• Supplementary health insurance
• Company laptop and accessories provided by PDQ

PDQ is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, state, or local law. If you would like to request reasonable accommodation for a medical condition or disability during any part of the application process, please contact [email protected].