Rust Engineer, Cloud Services & Infrastructure

At Standard Cognition, we’re revolutionizing the way the world shops. By replacing cash registers with computer vision-powered checkout, we’re creating a frictionless experience for shoppers. Since launching in 2017, Standard has contracts with multiple global retailers and is in the process of deploying our Standard Checkout solution across thousands of stores globally.
We’re backed by some of Silicon Valley’s leading investors including Softbank, CRV, Initialized, EQT, Draper Associates and Combinator. We just announced our series C in February 2021!

 
Standard is building a highly scalable and versatile platform-as-a-service architecture. We deploy a variety of algorithms to the cloud in a live-inference setting with high-throughput demands and must do so in a scalable, efficient way for all of our stores. This role is a unique opportunity to work at the cutting edge of building systems and tools that empower machine learning at scale. 

We're looking for someone passionate about infrastructure development and production engineering to help perfect and scale our system to hundreds of stores. You will design and build high-quality production systems that drive key improvements to our platform-as-a-service architecture. You’ll be working with a group of brilliant and highly skilled engineers. If this sounds like fun, we'd love to hear from you!

This is a FULL TIME remote position located in the US and EU time zones.

What you'll do here:

● Write high-performance, compiled software to process and deliver data to our production systems and ML teams.

● Excellent software design problem solving and debugging skills.

● Work with cloud platform teams to design, develop, debug and support platforms, services and application workspaces.

● Work with the application teams to design, develop, debug and support new cloud-native applications and migrate existing applications to the cloud.
● Be an awesome person to work with, somebody who sincerely empathizes with others

Who you are:

● Proficient in at least one systems language such as Rust, C++, Go or Java (we use Rust!)

● You have experience with GCP (preferred), AWS, or Azure cloud infrastructure.

● Experience writing applications that make efficient use of resources.

● Experience with domain driven design and architecting systems that are easy to change
Container platforms: Docker, Kubernetes.

● Experience in building highly available cloud applications.

● Experience in building APIs for cloud services, including client libraries.

● Only meet some of these traits or experiences? We'd still love to hear from you!


What you will be working with:

● CI/CD platforms: Jenkins, GCP Cloud Build, Github Actions.

● Protobuf, Flatbuffer structured data and gRPC communication protocols.

● SQL and NoSQL databases, PubSub and message queues.

Why you might want to work with us:

● We take care of you and your family with health, vision, and dental insurance.

● You will have the option to contribute to a 401k. 

● You're excited to work on a product that will impact almost any consumer, almost anywhere. 

● Standard is a remote first company. We trust you to get your job done in the location that works best for you.

● We dress casually. Some of us wear slippers in the office. In current work from home standings, we’re super comfy. 

● We believe in a culture of learning, and want to keep building our skills, experiences, and capabilities.

● We offer flexible work schedules. We trust our team to know how they will do their best work. 

● We're family friendly. We want our teammates to focus on what they need to when they need to.

● We offer very competitive compensation, including equity in Standard, to each one of our employees.

● We offer very competitive compensation, including equity in Standard, to each one of our employees.


Standard provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcome people from all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

Not quite ready to apply? Send us an email at [email protected]. Someone from the team will follow up to answer your questions.