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title: 'Senior Software Engineer, Rust at Ditto'
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# Senior Software Engineer, Rust at Ditto

- **Company:** Ditto
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA / Washington, DC / San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $185k–$227k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-03-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ditto/38990212-86f6-4097-9111-39ba4194b653/application

**Skills:** Rust, FFI, Async runtimes, Systems programming, Observability, Telemetry, Logging, Metrics, Tracing, Android, Kotlin, Embedded databases, Data sync, Offline-first architectures, Networking fundamentals, TCP/UDP, Bluetooth Low Energy, Mesh networking, Developer tooling

> Design and build the telemetry pipeline for Ditto's Rust SDK, focusing on observability, logging, and tracing across constrained hardware. The role involves optimizing performance, managing support bundles, and engaging with customers to resolve production issues.

## Job description

About Ditto:

Ditto is redefining how data moves at the edge. 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.

## ABOUT THE POSITION:

Ditto's SDK runs on thousands of devices across iOS, Android, desktop, and embedded platforms — from restaurant POS terminals to military radios. The Rust core is the engine, consumed via FFI across all of them. Once it ships, we have limited visibility into how it behaves in our customers' environments. When something goes wrong, we need to understand what happened — often on devices we can't access, on networks we don't control, running workloads we didn't anticipate.

You'll own the observability story for Ditto's SDK. That means designing and building the telemetry pipeline that runs inside the Rust core: what we instrument, how we collect and buffer it locally, how we get it off the device, and how we make it useful — both for our engineering team diagnosing issues and for our customers understanding how Ditto is performing in their applications.

This isn't configuring Datadog dashboards. You'll be designing systems that run on constrained hardware with intermittent connectivity, where every byte of overhead matters and the observability system must never degrade the SDK's core functionality. You'll think about bounded buffers on devices with 2GB of RAM, support bundles that help our support engineers resolve issues in hours instead of days, and remote telemetry that gives us fleet-level visibility across hundreds of customer deployments.

AS A SENIOR RUST ENGINEER, YOU WILL OWN:

- SDK Observability Pipeline — Design, build, and maintain the client-side telemetry system in the Rust core. Metrics, structured logging, and tracing that work across all platforms the SDK targets, with configurable verbosity, sampling, and export.
- Support Bundles — Evolve our current log bundle system into comprehensive support bundles that capture device state, recent telemetry, configuration, and diagnostic metadata — giving our support engineers (and customers) the context they need to resolve issues quickly.
- Logging System Performance — Reduce the I/O and compute overhead of our current logging infrastructure. The SDK's observability should be near-invisible to the host application's performance.
- Rust SDK Ownership — Own feature development and customer support for our Rust SDK, including direct engagement with customers debugging production integration issues.

## WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

- Systems-level Rust experience (3+ years) — You've built production-grade Rust libraries or systems. You're comfortable with unsafe, FFI boundaries, async runtimes, and reasoning about memory layouts and performance at the microsecond level.
- Observability and telemetry design experience — You've designed or significantly contributed to instrumentation, logging, metrics, or tracing systems. You understand the tradeoffs between signal granularity and overhead, and you've thought about what makes telemetry useful, not just voluminous. Experience with OpenTelemetry is a strong plus.
- Library/SDK development mindset — You've built software that other developers consume as a dependency. You think about API design, backward compatibility, developer experience, and the principle that your library is a guest in someone else's application.
- Cross-platform and FFI fluency — The Rust core ships via FFI to Swift, Kotlin, C#, JavaScript, and more. You need to be comfortable working across language boundaries and understanding how your Rust code behaves when called from a different runtime.
- Strong written communication — We're an async-first, distributed team. Your design docs, RFCs, and code reviews are your primary communication tools. You can explain complex systems decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Customer empathy — You're willing to engage directly with customers, debug production issues on their devices, and translate field experience into engineering improvements.

## NICE TO HAVES:

- Android/Kotlin or mobile platform experience
- Experience with embedded databases, data sync, or offline-first architectures
- Background in developer tooling or developer experience teams
- Networking fundamentals: TCP/UDP, Bluetooth Low Energy, mesh networking
- Open-source contributions in relevant ecosystems (Rust observability, FFI tooling, cross-platform SDKs)

## THE BENEFITS OF BUILDING WITH US

We 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.

Regardless 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.

## APPLY ANYWAY

At 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.

What does matter?

- Grit.
- Curiosity.
- Adaptability.
- And a genuine spark for what we’re building.

So 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.

We’re always on the lookout for exceptional humans who want to grow, stretch, and build something meaningful with us.

## EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Ditto 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. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let us know.

## About Ditto

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ditto provides an edge-native, offline-first distributed database with built-in peer-to-peer networking, enabling devices to sync data resiliently without relying on a centralized server or constant internet connectivity.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Adam Fish (CEO) and co-founders

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Edge Computing, Distributed Databases, Developer Infrastructure, Peer-to-Peer Networking
- Target customers: B2B — primarily enterprises in aviation (Delta, Japan Airlines, Lufthansa), logistics, retail, manufacturing, and public sector; also serves developers building mobile or IoT applications.
- Mission or purpose statement: To make data resilient and accessible anywhere, on any device, by replacing complex data infrastructure with a simple, peer-to-peer database.

## Products & Services
- **Ditto Edge Sync SDK**: An embeddable software development kit (SDK) that allows mobile or edge devices to store, sync, and process data locally via Bluetooth, P2P WiFi, or LAN — without needing a cloud server. It uses CRDT (Conflict-free Replicated Data Type) technology for automatic conflict resolution.
- **Ditto Cloud Sync (Bidirectional Cloud Connector)**: An option that syncs data from edge devices to existing cloud databases (e.g., MongoDB) when internet is available, providing a hybrid architecture.
- **Ditto Server**: A self-managed or edge server deployment option for customers who need dedicated infrastructure.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $462 million post-money (Series B, March 2025)
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $136 million (Seed: $9M in 2021; Series A: $45M in 2023; Series B: $82M in 2025)
- **Annual Revenue**: Estimated at $3.0M per LinkedIn (private company, not officially disclosed); ARR grew 250% in the year prior to March 2025
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investors: Acrew Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners. Participants include True Ventures, Amity Ventures, Advance Venture Partners, Fundrise, Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ). Key strategic partner: MongoDB (native Connector launched).
- **Growth Signals**: Customer count doubled to 30+ (incl. major airlines); secured a $950M contract with the U.S. Air Force (2022); headcount grew 16% YoY to 131 employees; acquired Kubernetes consultancy SuperOrbital and KeySquare Labs in 2025.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Edge-Native Architecture**: Unlike traditional databases, Ditto is built for mobile and edge devices from the ground up, not retrofitted. It replaces physical edge servers with software on devices like smartphones, eliminating costly hardware.
- **Offline-First & Resilient**: Apps can read, write, and process data completely offline; mesh networks form automatically and sync opportunistically when connections are available.
- **Peer-to-Peer Mesh Networking**: Built-in support for BLE, P2P WiFi, and LAN allows devices to discover each other and sync directly, without a centralized cloud or server bottleneck.
- **CRDT-Powered Conflict Resolution**: Automatically resolves concurrency conflicts in decentralized systems without requiring a central arbiter.
- **Developer-Friendly**: Supports all major mobile and frontend frameworks (Flutter, React, SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose) with simple query-based APIs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the team and product** (Series B funds allocated to growth).
- **Forging deeper cloud database partnerships** (building on MongoDB Connector and seeking more).
- **Capitalizing on AI edge computing tailwinds**: enabling real-time AI model inference at the edge with low latency and improved data privacy.
- **Expanding into public sector and government** (dedicated public sector team, Air Force contract).
- **Growing international presence** (operations in 15 countries, team across 5 continents).

## Why Work Here
- **Built Remote-First, Globally Distributed**: Ditto has been fully remote since its founding in 2018. The team spans 5 continents and 15 countries (including the US, UK, Netherlands, France, Japan, Sweden). HQ is in SF but operational flexibility is a core principle.
- **Culture Anchored in Values**: The company emphasizes Trust, Communication, and Continual Improvement. Employees describe the environment as focused on “builders” who enjoy deep technical challenges.
- **Engineering-Heavy Team**: 36% of employees are in technical roles (engineering, data sync, networking, Bluetooth, platform). Strong talent attraction from companies like MongoDB, Couchbase, dbt Labs, and Pinecone, indicating a high-caliber engineering culture.
- **High-Growth Trajectory**: ARR grew 250%, customer count doubled, and headcount grew 16% YoY. Recent acquisitions signal aggressive expansion.
- **Remote/Office Policy**: Remote-first; no mandatory in-office requirement, though SF HQ exists as an option.
- **Notable Perks & Approach**: Focus on autonomy and deep technical ownership; frequent hiring for senior-level roles (23% seniority); strong support for open-source and peer-to-peer technology.

## Sources
1. [ditto.com - About](https://www.ditto.com/about)
2. [ditto.com - Technology](https://www.ditto.com/?iss=https%3A%2F%2Fditto.auth0.com%2F)
3. [TechCrunch - Ditto lands $82M](https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/12/ditto-lands-82m-to-synchronize-data-from-the-edge-to-the-cloud/)
4. [LinkedIn - Ditto Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dittolive)
5. [Built In - What's It Like to Work at Ditto](https://builtin.com/company/ditto/faq/workplace-perception)
6. [Ashby Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ditto)

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