<div>In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing Ockam's Open Source Command Line.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam" class="postings-link">Ockam</a> crates implement a collection of messaging and cryptographic protocols that provide <b>end-to-end application layer trust in data</b>. We believe that, in order to have a realistically manageable vulnerability surface, all modern applications need end-to-end guarantees of data integrity and authenticity. The only way to build secure and private applications is to remove unnecessary implicit trust in network boundaries, intermediaries and infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>As a Command Line Design Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and improving our command line interface (CLI) tools, ensuring they deliver a seamless and user-friendly experience. You will need to combine your expertise in Rust programming with a strong focus on user experience (UX) design to create efficient and intuitive command line interfaces that meet the needs of our customers.</div><div><br></div><div>The Ockam team is passionate about making powerful cryptographic protocols simple and safe for application developers. In this role you will collaborate across the Ockam Engineering team to deliver a safe, secure, stable, well-documented, easy to use, <a href="https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam" class="postings-link">100% open source</a> Rust command line.</div>

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing Ockam's Open Source Command Line.

Ockam crates implement a collection of messaging and cryptographic protocols that provide end-to-end application layer trust in data. We believe that, in order to have a realistically manageable vulnerability surface, all modern applications need end-to-end guarantees of data integrity and authenticity. The only way to build secure and private applications is to remove unnecessary implicit trust in network boundaries, intermediaries and infrastructure.

As a Command Line Design Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing and improving our command line interface (CLI) tools, ensuring they deliver a seamless and user-friendly experience. You will need to combine your expertise in Rust programming with a strong focus on user experience (UX) design to create efficient and intuitive command line interfaces that meet the needs of our customers.

The Ockam team is passionate about making powerful cryptographic protocols simple and safe for application developers. In this role you will collaborate across the Ockam Engineering team to deliver a safe, secure, stable, well-documented, easy to use, 100% open source Rust command line.


<li>Strong proficiency in Rust programming language, with a proven track record of developing robust and efficient command line applications.</li><li>Experience with user experience (UX) design principles and methodologies, and a demonstrated ability to create intuitive and user-friendly interfaces.</li><li>Customer empathy and the ability to understand user needs and translate them into effective design solutions.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a keen attention to detail.</li><li>Building components in complex code bases.</li><li>Modern build systems, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps.</li><li>Consuming and contributing to open source codebases.</li><li>Git and GitHub's workflow.</li><li>Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.</li>

<li>7+ years of experience building low-level and backend systems.</li><li>Distributed systems, Actor based concurrent systems and Messaging Protocols.</li><li>Provisioning and operating basic cloud services in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.</li><li>Familiarity with multiple programming languages</li>

<li>This is a Senior Level (L5) role at Ockam.</li><li>For more information about Role Levels at Ockam,&nbsp;&lt;<a href="https://www.ockam.io/blog/levels_ladder" class="postings-link">click here for our guide</a>&gt;.</li>

<li>Learn about how Ockam’s Rust Command and Ockam Orchestrator work.</li><li>Have 1x1s and pairing sessions with the team members that you’ll be working with closely and get to know your engineering peers.</li><li>Do a deep dive into the code base and learn more about the inner workings of our Rust Command.</li><li>Learn about what processes our team currently has in place and how we get work done.</li><li>Tackle your first ticket by committing code to one of our repos.</li>

Your Roadmap at Ockam, within 1 month, you'll:

<li>Gain a robust understanding of the needs of Ockam Command, Ockam API and Ockam libraries from the user's perspective</li><li>Design, architect, and deliver your first large feature</li><li>Guide your peers that you work with on areas of improvement on the technical side as well as the process side</li><li>Establish strong async and sync communication rhythms with your peers and management, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress and areas of focus</li><li>Celebrate the major win of having your work being used and valued by our users</li><li>Solicit feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your team through thoughtful feedback</li>

<li>Have conversations with our users and quickly understand how a feature needs to be added and lead architectural discussions for Ockam Command</li><li>Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in an area that interests you</li><li>Continue to contribute to our Open Source libraries and Ockam Command</li><li>Fortify relationships with cross functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organization</li><li>Coach and mentor team members</li>

<li>Have significant ownership, making extensive contributions to a large system that enables customers to establish trusted channels between applications.</li><li>Drive initiatives with high-impact on the business and our customers.</li><li>Extensively collaborate with engineering management the executive team to level up the organization and continually improve our product.</li>

<div>The full detail on how we determine compensation is outlined in our handbook: <a href="https://www.ockam.io/blog/team_handbook#how-compensation-is-determined" class="postings-link">https://www.ockam.io/blog/team_handbook#how-compensation-is-determined</a></div>

The full detail on how we determine compensation is outlined in our handbook: https://www.ockam.io/blog/team_handbook#how-compensation-is-determined


<div>In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing Ockam's open source Rust Library, Command Line, and Packages.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam" class="postings-link">Ockam</a> crates implement a collection of messaging and cryptographic protocols that provide <b>end-to-end application layer trust in data</b>. We believe that, in order to have a realistically manageable vulnerability surface, all modern applications need end-to-end guarantees of data integrity and authenticity. The only way to build secure and private applications is to remove unnecessary implicit trust in network boundaries, intermediaries and infrastructure.</div><div><br></div><div>This role will require solving challenging problems in areas like library API design, type systems, protocol design, actor model, async execution, abstraction, loose coupling, pluggable modules and more. You will be part of a team of senior engineers who have deep expertise across distributed systems, messaging protocols, network protocols, cryptographic protocols, embedded systems etc. </div><div><br></div><div>The Ockam team is passionate about making powerful cryptographic protocols simple and safe for application developers. In this role you will collaborate with this team to deliver safe, secure, stable, well-documented, easy to use, <a href="https://github.com/ockam-network/ockam" class="postings-link">100% open source</a> Rust libraries and command line.</div><div><br></div><div>We just raised a Series A and will be growing the team from 11 to 30 over the next two years. This role involves architecture, interface design, writing code, responsibility for testing, and publishing documentation. Everyone on the Ockam team takes responsibility for their parts from end-to-end, including the creation of long term objectives, issues in GitHub, task management, and summaries of key results.</div>

In this role, you will be responsible for designing and developing Ockam's open source Rust Library, Command Line, and Packages.

Ockam crates implement a collection of messaging and cryptographic protocols that provide end-to-end application layer trust in data. We believe that, in order to have a realistically manageable vulnerability surface, all modern applications need end-to-end guarantees of data integrity and authenticity. The only way to build secure and private applications is to remove unnecessary implicit trust in network boundaries, intermediaries and infrastructure.

This role will require solving challenging problems in areas like library API design, type systems, protocol design, actor model, async execution, abstraction, loose coupling, pluggable modules and more. You will be part of a team of senior engineers who have deep expertise across distributed systems, messaging protocols, network protocols, cryptographic protocols, embedded systems etc. 

The Ockam team is passionate about making powerful cryptographic protocols simple and safe for application developers. In this role you will collaborate with this team to deliver safe, secure, stable, well-documented, easy to use, 100% open source Rust libraries and command line.

We just raised a Series A and will be growing the team from 11 to 30 over the next two years. This role involves architecture, interface design, writing code, responsibility for testing, and publishing documentation. Everyone on the Ockam team takes responsibility for their parts from end-to-end, including the creation of long term objectives, issues in GitHub, task management, and summaries of key results.


<li><b>The Rust language</b>.</li><li>Type Systems, Generics, Futures, Async/Await, Tokio</li><li>Library API and CLI design.</li><li>Building components in complex code bases.</li><li>Modern build systems, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps.</li><li>Consuming and contributing to open source codebases.</li><li>Git and GitHub's workflow.</li>

<li>7+ years of experience building low-level and backend systems.</li><li>Distributed systems, Actor based concurrent systems and Messaging Protocols.</li><li>Provisioning and operating basic cloud services in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.</li><li>Familiarity with multiple programming languages, including <b>Typescript </b></li>

<li>This is a Senior Level (L4/5) role at Ockam.</li><li>For more information about Role Levels at Ockam,&nbsp;&lt;<a href="https://www.ockam.io/blog/levels_ladder" class="postings-link">click here for our guide</a>&gt;.</li>

<li>Learn about how Ockam’s Rust libraries, Ockam Protocols and Ockam Orchestrator work.</li><li>Have 1x1s and pairing sessions with the team members that you’ll be working with closely and get to know your engineering peers.</li><li>If you are new to Rust or have dabbled in it in the past, this month will be a great opportunity for you to spend time doing tutorials and learning the fundamentals of Rust.</li><li>Do a deep dive into the code base and learn more about the inner workings of our Rust libraries.</li><li>Learn about what processes our team currently has in place and how we get work done.</li><li>Tackle your first ticket by committing code to one of our repos.</li>

<li>Gain a robust understanding of the needs of the Rust library</li><li>Understand the details of how our partner Auth0 would like the TypeScript libraries to work in their environment.</li><li>Design, architect, and deliver your first large feature</li><li>Guide your peers that you work with on areas of improvement on the technical side as well as the process side</li><li>Establish strong async and sync communication rhythms with your peers and management, practicing transparency and visibility in your progress and areas of focus</li><li>Celebrate the major win of having your work being used and valued by our users</li><li>Solicit feedback from your peers, including other engineers and teammates in your product team, and support your team through thoughtful feedback</li>

<li>Gain a deep understanding of both the Rust and TypeScript libraries and how they work together and when we add a feature, how do we want to architect it best for both libraries</li><li>Elevate the work of the team and become a subject matter expert in an area that interests you</li><li>Continue to contribute to our Open Source libraries and Ockam Command</li><li>Fortify relationships with cross functional team members as well as broaden your connections across the organization</li><li>Coach and mentor team members</li>

<div><b>Ockam Overview</b></div><div><b>TL;DR</b> - Ockam builds developer tools within the security space with the objective of enabling trusted communication between any applications. We believe in building trust when it comes to our product as well as the culture we have for our teams. We’d love for you to join us on our journey!</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Ockam’s vision is to build a future where all applications can be interoperable - everywhere. We empower developers with simple tools so they can create applications that Trust data in motion.</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Ockam equips development teams with the tools they need to easily build a “trust architecture” within their applications to ensure that data that moves over complex, multi-hop, multi-protocol routes is end-to-end encrypted, mutually authenticated, secure, and private.</div><div><br></div><div>We are excited to announce our Series A fundraise of $<a href="http://12.5m/" class="postings-link">12.5M</a> from Craft Ventures, Future Ventures, SineWave Ventures, OCV and Okta Ventures!</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>As Ockam continues to grow, our values and virtues stay constant as our guiding lights. It is deeply important for us to maintain and enhance a culture in which everyone is respected, valued and empowered. And has a great time working with our kind and talented team members!</div><div><br></div><div><b>About the Opportunity</b></div><div>In this role, you will be the most senior engineer on our Platform Engineering team and this role will require solving challenging problems in areas like infrastructure automation, continuous deployment, secrets management, observability, fault tolerance, security monitoring, incidence response and more. You will be part of a team of senior engineers who have deep expertise across distributed systems, messaging systems, networking, security, cloud applications etc.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Your focus will be on developing tools and processes to measure and drive key Service Level Objectives. An ideal person for this role is someone who has past experience working in a team responsible for operating open source products as-a-service on public cloud infrastructure (ex. MongoDB Atlas, Confluent Cloud, etc).</div><div><br></div><div>This role involves architecture, tool design, writing code, responsibility for testing, and publishing documentation. Everyone on the Ockam team takes responsibility for their parts from end-to-end, including the creation of long term objectives, issues in GitHub, task management, and summaries of key results.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">Generally, </span><a href="https://www.ockam.io/blog/levels_ladder#l6l7-staff-engineer-i--ii" style="font-size: 11pt" class="postings-link">see the engineering levels</a><span style="font-size: 11pt"> for Staff Engineers at Ockam. Furthermore, we’ve defined the Staff level to </span><a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-staff-engineers/9781098118723/" style="font-size: 11pt" class="postings-link">align with this book</a><span style="font-size: 11pt">.</span></div>

Ockam Overview
TL;DR - Ockam builds developer tools within the security space with the objective of enabling trusted communication between any applications. We believe in building trust when it comes to our product as well as the culture we have for our teams. We’d love for you to join us on our journey!
 
Ockam’s vision is to build a future where all applications can be interoperable - everywhere. We empower developers with simple tools so they can create applications that Trust data in motion.
 
Ockam equips development teams with the tools they need to easily build a “trust architecture” within their applications to ensure that data that moves over complex, multi-hop, multi-protocol routes is end-to-end encrypted, mutually authenticated, secure, and private.

We are excited to announce our Series A fundraise of $12.5M from Craft Ventures, Future Ventures, SineWave Ventures, OCV and Okta Ventures!
 
As Ockam continues to grow, our values and virtues stay constant as our guiding lights. It is deeply important for us to maintain and enhance a culture in which everyone is respected, valued and empowered. And has a great time working with our kind and talented team members!

About the Opportunity
In this role, you will be the most senior engineer on our Platform Engineering team and this role will require solving challenging problems in areas like infrastructure automation, continuous deployment, secrets management, observability, fault tolerance, security monitoring, incidence response and more. You will be part of a team of senior engineers who have deep expertise across distributed systems, messaging systems, networking, security, cloud applications etc. 

Your focus will be on developing tools and processes to measure and drive key Service Level Objectives. An ideal person for this role is someone who has past experience working in a team responsible for operating open source products as-a-service on public cloud infrastructure (ex. MongoDB Atlas, Confluent Cloud, etc).

This role involves architecture, tool design, writing code, responsibility for testing, and publishing documentation. Everyone on the Ockam team takes responsibility for their parts from end-to-end, including the creation of long term objectives, issues in GitHub, task management, and summaries of key results.

Generally, see the engineering levels for Staff Engineers at Ockam. Furthermore, we’ve defined the Staff level to align with this book.


<li>Understanding customer use cases and how their user experience is affected by the platform and processes that we use to operate and deliver our products.&nbsp;</li><li>Creating and executing a plan to commit to&nbsp; Service Levels (drive observability,&nbsp; SLIs, SLOs and SLAs. Plan incident response, create runbooks etc.)</li><li>Creating and executing a plan to achieve various platform compliance standards - AWS Well Architected, External Security Audits, SOC2 etc.</li>

<li>Building, maintaining, securing, and scaling our cloud infrastructure.</li><li>Enabling Continuous Delivery across the Product Engineering teams - design build, test, release, deployment, upgrade pipelines.&nbsp;</li><li>Establishing security best practices across our company - secure our dependencies, dev environments, delivery pipelines, release processes, cloud infrastructure etc. </li>

<li>Educating and helping Product Engineering teams understand the ‘DevOps mindset’ and bring engineering practices to the team</li><li>High Communication with the Engineers across both the Ockam Open Source and Ockam Orchestrator teams to ensure everyone is on the same page with new features, infrastructure, deployment and customer needs</li><li>Mentoring team members on the Platform Engineering team</li><li>Breaking down work into consumable chunks for the Platform Engineers to work on and unblocking them as needed</li><li>Collaborate on interviewing and vetting candidates for open platform and devops engineering roles</li>

Communication / Leveling Up Team Members / Project Management

<div>Salary range is <b>total comp</b>, which includes base salary and equity. See <a href="https://www.ockam.io/blog/team_handbook#how-compensation-is-determined" class="postings-link">Ockam's Handbook</a> for more information on our compensation.</div>

Salary range is total comp, which includes base salary and equity. See Ockam&#39;s Handbook for more information on our compensation.


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