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Abacus Works · 3 months ago

Senior Rust Engineer

positionNew York, United States
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
senioritySenior Level
money$180K/yr - $250K/yr
date5+ years exp

Abacus Works is pioneering permissionless and modular interoperability through the Hyperlane protocol. They are seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to contribute to the design and development of Hyperlane's core protocol, focusing on security, scalability, and cross-chain composability.

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Responsibilities

Contribute to the design and development of Hyperlane's core protocol, ensuring security, scalability, and cross-chain composability
Develop and optimize Hyperlane's interchain security models for a variety of blockchain environments (Layer 1s, rollups, app-chains)
Build and maintain integrations with leading blockchains and rollups
Collaborate on the development of Interchain Applications, showcasing the power of Hyperlane
Provide technical support and guidance to developers building on our platform

Qualification

RustHigh-availability systemsCrypto experienceGolangTypeScriptPythonNon-EVM smart contractsIndependent operationInitiativeOwnership

Required

Demonstrated Rust experience
5+ years building and maintaining high-availability systems (languages we like to see: Rust, Golang, TypeScript, Python)
Ability to operate independently under uncertainty
Strong sense of initiative and ownership
Crypto experience

Preferred

Experience working with non-EVM-based smart contract platforms

Benefits

Compensation subject to experience and location.
Published salary bands pursuant to transparency laws, and do not include possible variable compensation such as annual merit increases, bonus eligibility, commission, or equity incentive.

Company

Abacus Works

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Abacus Works is a core developer team behind Hyperlane. Hyperlane is an open framework for interoperability.
dateFounded in 2022
location
Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.hyperlane.xyz

H1B Sponsorship

Abacus Works has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (2)
2024 (3)

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$18.5M
Key Investors
Variant
2022-09-22Seed· $18.5M

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