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We’re a globally distributed team of bold, curious problem-solvers dedicated to delivering clean, reliable web data wherever it’s needed.\n\nWe live and breathe data: We unlock access to open web data, helping everyone from scrappy startups to global enterprises power competitive intelligence, analytics, and cutting-edge AI models.\n\nTruly remote-first: Work from wherever you thrive. With more than 260 Zytans spread across 33 countries, our diversity is our greatest strength.\n\nEngineering excellence: We love rolling up our sleeves to dig into complex codebases, test out fresh technologies, and push technical limits. 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It runs a Rust peer runtime on residential Windows PCs that long-polls our command-and-control service over mTLS gRPC, making fetches look indistinguishable from real human traffic using genuine hardware, residential IPs, and seamless fingerprints.\nOur Edge Platform squad manages both the control plane and data plane of this stack. Right now, we’re expanding from Windows into Android devices on mobile networks and self-hosted Linux (with macOS on the horizon). Mobile is where our biggest opportunity lies: websites that block desktop traffic often welcome a real mobile phone on a 4G connection. That’s where you come in! You’ll be the lead engineer making our peer run smoothly and invisibly across every platform—binding Rust to native network stacks and OS APIs via FFI, and turning scattered devices into a well-oiled, observable fleet. 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You understand the intricacies of OS permissions, processes, and background behavior.\n\nComfortable with FFI: Skilled in interfacing Rust with C/C++ libraries and native OS APIs (JNI/NDK, Win32, POSIX), including managing lifetimes, memory ownership, and cross-language threading.\n\nDeep networking knowledge: Thorough understanding of TCP, TLS, and HTTP protocols down to the packet level; you know how to dissect network traffic and analyze why client fingerprints differ.\n\nReliability-first mindset: You instrument everything you build, know how to measure fleet health without direct device access, and take pride in on-call operational excellence.\n\nSecurity-conscious: You recognize that running code on third-party devices requires high trust and rigorous defensive design.\n\nGreat async communicator: Excellent written communication skills suited for a distributed, remote-first team.\n\nIncurably curious: You enjoy reverse engineering protocols, exploring new binaries, and figuring out how complex systems truly work under the hood.\n\nOur Tech Stack\nLanguages: Rust (tokio, tonic), C++ (Cronet), Kotlin/Java on Android.\n\nPlatforms: Windows today; Android (real and emulated) and Linux next; macOS coming soon.\n\nProtocols & Libraries: gRPC and Protobuf over mTLS, Chromium network stack, custom browserless HTTP clients, and custom Chromium builds.\n\nInfrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Valkey, BigQuery, blue/green deployments.\n\nObservability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry.\n\nNice-to-Haves\nResidential network experience: Building or running proxy networks, peer-to-peer applications, or device farms.\n\nBrowser internals knowledge: Experience with Chromium, Cronet, Firefox networking, or anti-detection technologies.\n\nDistributed systems background: Designing schedulers, orchestrators, or control planes for large-scale fleets.\n\nWeb scraping experience: Familiarity with the technical nuances and hurdles of web scraping at scale.\n\nOpen source contributions: Active participation in Rust, networking, or mobile open-source communities.\n\nWhy You’ll Love Working Here\nMassive impact: Build the foundational device layer powering data pipelines for global industry leaders.\n\nAutonomy & flexibility: Enjoy true remote work with flexible hours and a high-trust, supportive environment.\n\nContinuous innovation: Solve cutting-edge technical problems at the intersection of AI and web data collection.\n\nGlobal collaboration: Work alongside talented, passionate systems engineers and data experts worldwide.\n\nIf you’re a Rust engineer who loves making software run reliably across unpredictable hardware and diverse platforms, we’d love to hear from you. 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