Bioinformatics workflow execution engine / Senior Rust Developer

Job Description

About us

We are an open workflow execution engine that enables scientists, who are generally not experts at scaling and deploying large-scale computation, to write simple workflow descriptions using the Workflow Description Language.

About the project

We are looking for a Senior Rust Developer. Our goal is to advance computational biology by developing scalable, open-source workflow execution engines that empower scientists to efficiently deploy and manage large-scale computations.

🛠 Desired Skills and Experience

• Senior-level proficiency in Rust, with a strong track record of shipping production code
• Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects
• Familiarity with workflow engines, scientific computing, or large-scale computation
• Ability to work with Rust crates for lexing, parsing, validating, linting, formatting, testing, and executing domain-specific languages
• Strong skills in API design and specification development
• Experience using GitHub for project planning and collaboration

🛠 Nice to have

• Experience developing or improving specifications using OpenAPI (Swagger)
• Familiarity with the Workflow Description Language (WDL) and Task Execution Schema (TES)
• Experience with Kubernetes or cloud/HPC environments
• Prior involvement with standards bodies (e.g., GA4GH)
• Experience with Rust crates such as utoipa for OpenAPI/Swagger documentation

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and enhancement of the Sprocket workflow execution engine and related Rust crates (e.g., wdl, sprocket, crankshaft)
• Improve and extend the Workflow Description Language (WDL) specification, including proposing, drafting, and shepherding changes through the ratification process
• Collaborate on the evolution of the Task Execution Schema (TES), including interaction with standards bodies and the open-source community
• Develop and maintain reference implementations, ensuring comprehensive API documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger)
• Regularly communicate progress and coordinate with the internal computational biology team