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Our mission is to make it seamless for developers to build resilient, real-time applications, regardless of network conditions. Whether you're in a stadium, airplane, or remote military base, Ditto's peer-to-peer sync engine ensures devices stay connected and data stays consistent, even without internet. With more than $145 million in funding and trusted by organizations like Chick-fil-A, Delta Airlines, and the U.S. military, Ditto powers mission-critical experiences across aviation, retail, travel, hospitality, defense, and more. As a globally distributed, fast-growing startup, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the wide range of perspectives needed to solve the world’s hardest connectivity problems.\nAbout the position:\nReady to shape the future of mesh networking? Join a team at the forefront of next-generation network technology at Ditto. We're expanding our core network stack and building high-performance solutions in next-generation networking, including routing protocols, end-to-end connectivity, transport mechanisms, and edge platforms for mesh systems. Work remotely, set your own schedule, and solve complex, meaningful problems. At Ditto, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer with a diverse, global team. We believe that inclusive teams drive innovation, and we’re committed to fostering a workplace that values a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, and talents.\nAs a Software Engineer - Networking, you will:\nDesign, implement, and own core components of Ditto’s networking and transport stack, spanning overlay networking (routing, virtual connections, channel lifecycle) and underlying physical transports and protocols (BLE, LAN, Wi-Fi Aware, AWDL, etc.).\n\nDrive the re-architecture of the networking stack toward a more modular, scalable, and high-performance design, establishing clear interfaces and ownership boundaries between transport layers and mesh abstractions.\n\nDebug and systematically improve real-world connectivity issues including data transfer reliability, MTU negotiation, pairing instability, throughput ceilings, and cross-platform data sync behavior.\n\nBuild and optimize transport mechanisms with explicit attention to flow control, backpressure, congestion handling, retries, connection lifecycle management, and failure recovery.\n\nIdentify and eliminate performance bottlenecks across latency, memory footprint, CPU utilization, and tail behavior in highly concurrent, asynchronous systems.\n\nDesign protocol state machines, wire formats, and transport abstractions that remain correct under unreliable networks, intermittent connectivity, and constrained environments.\n\nEstablish meaningful observability through targeted logging, metrics, and diagnostics to enable rapid production debugging and root-cause analysis.\n\nThis role is ideal for engineers passionate about networking, distributed systems, and building low-level infrastructure that operates at scale and in constrained environments.\nWhat You’ll Need\n5+ years of professional experience building systems software, with at least 3 years focused on networking, transport protocols, or or routing.\n\nStrong proficiency in Rust or C++, including ownership and borrowing semantics, async runtimes, concurrency primitives, and profiling / optimization techniques.\n\nAn understanding of some of key mesh networking topics such as TCP, UDP, and QUIC semantics and tradeoffs, including connection establishment, congestion and flow control, retransmission behavior, MTU/fragmentation, and practical implications for latency, throughput, and reliability in real-world systems.\n\nExposure to or experience working with networked services and protocols. Demonstrated ability to debug complex behavior in networked and concurrent systems (race conditions, deadlocks, resource leaks, latency spikes).\n\nExperience designing modular APIs and abstractions that scale across multiple implementations and evolve safely over time.\n\nClear written and verbal communication skills in a distributed, asynchronous team environment.\n\nA passion to learn new networking technologies, APIs, and approaches to build at the bleeding edge of mesh networking.\n\nNice to Haves\nExperience with mesh networking protocols, routing algorithms, or gossip protocols.\n\nUnderstanding of mobile platform constraints including background execution models, battery optimization, OS suspension/resume cycles, and their impact on persistent connections.\n\nExperience with Apple Core Bluetooth or Android WiFi Aware APIs.\n\nExperience with Linux networking, sockets, async I/O, or low-level systems programming.\n\nWillingness to travel once per quarter for in-person team gatherings.\n\nThe Benefits of Building with Us\nWe offer competitive salaries and meaningful equity. We believe everyone on the team should have a stake in what we’re building. Benefits vary by region to make sure you're covered in the ways that matter most. In the US, that includes health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance, plus a 401(k) and flexible spending accounts.\nRegardless of where you live, everyone at Ditto can utilize flexible time off. And while we work remotely, our Atlanta office is always open if you ever want a place to work or meet up with teammates.\nApply Anyway\nAt Ditto, we know game-changers don’t always come wrapped in a “perfect” resume. Years of experience? Every single bullet point checked? Meh. That’s not what drives us.\nWhat does matter?\nGrit.\n\nCuriosity.\n\nAdaptability.\n\nAnd a genuine spark for what we’re building.\n\nSo if you’re fired up about our mission but not sure you tick every box - hit that apply button anyway. Use your application to show us how you’ll make an impact here.\nWe’re always on the lookout for exceptional humans who want to grow, stretch, and build something meaningful with us.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nDitto is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. Ditto is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 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