Software Engineer, PARE

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 aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking software empowers devices to synchronize data in real-time, using cutting-edge, peer-to-peer database technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems, automatically syncing data changes.

Help us ignite the future of highly scalable data synchronization as a Software Engineer for the Performance & Release Team! This team’s mission is to build the development infrastructure that enables all teams at Ditto to ship excellent code. It is newly formed and covers the domains of CI / CD, QA, automated testing, and releases. We are seeking a highly motivated senior software engineer to drive innovation and expand the ways in which we build and ship an excellent product at Ditto.

Your role will involve working with a talented team of mixed backgrounds from seasoned QA engineers to software engineers who have worked on all aspects of the edge platform. You will work with all your colleagues to improve our existing development systems, build new systems, bring in new tools, and own the pipeline that ships the platform to customers. You will work closely with the teams that ship code with our pipeline to build best-in-class development infrastructure for the engineers at Ditto.

As a Software Engineer, You Will:

• Build, maintain, and monitor shared development infrastructure such as CI / CD systems, benchmarking, and container management systems for developers across all engineering teams at Ditto with a focus on scalability and reliability.
• Build mobile apps and test automation in collaboration with QA for more efficient manual testing.
• Contribute to the team’s roadmap and pitch ways we can improve the internal systems at Ditto.
• Discover ways to increase the reliability, coverage, and consistency of CI and CD for all the components of Ditto’s Edge Platform including SDKs and Cloud services.
• Create and improve process to ensure the reliability, performance, and availability of our critical internal systems.
• Learn a broad set of new technologies across the domains of cloud services, mobile development, and the rust eco system.

What You’ll Need:

• Fluency in shell scripting, and at least one programming language such as Rust, Python, Javascript etc as well as the willingness to learn new languages and tools.
• Experience working with CI / CD systems such as Github Actions and Buildkite, as well as common cloud technologies such as Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm Charts, ArgoCD and Postgres.
• Experience testing and delivering applications built for mobile or cloud services.

Nice to Haves:

• Fluency in Rust
• Experience writing SQL for data analytics
• Familiarity across a breadth of programming languages such as Rust, C++, JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, .NET. Java, and platforms such WASM, JS Web, Windows, Linux, MacOS, JVM, mobile emulators, and native mobile.
• Experience working with testing and delivering technologies built for Mobile.
• Experience with property-based testing or other state-space exploration techniques.
• Previous experience with unified build systems (Bazel, Buck, Nix, etc.).
• Previous experience with data analytics for eff