What we’re doing GraphCDN is the missing ingredient that helps teams scale, inspect, and secure their GraphQL APIs in production. We’re building the tools we wish we’d had in our past projects.

GraphQL helps developers ship products quickly, and we love it to bits. Unfortunately, no modern CDN supports GraphQL APIs, and teams are left to build their own custom caching and security solutions from scratch. This work is distracting and complex and rarely works as well as it should.

To fix this, we created GraphCDN.

Who we are Tim lives in Berlin and is the creator of the GraphQL Playground and graphql-request. He was previously the first engineer at Prisma (Graphcool), where he helped scale the team from 3 to over 40 people.

Max lives in Vienna and is the creator of styled-components and react-boilerplate. He previously co-founded Spectrum (acquired by GitHub in 2018) and worked at GatsbyJS.

GraphCDN is a remote-first company without any physical offices, and we have regular off-sites to meet each other face-to-face. We’re building an exceptional and diverse team with the trust and autonomy to do the best work of our lives.

GraphCDN is backed by some of the best people in the industry, including Guillermo Rauch (CEO, Vercel), Tom Preston-Werner (Founder, GitHub), Matt Biilmann, Christian Bach (Co-CEOs, Netlify), Jason Warner (CTO, GitHub), Andreas Klinger (CTO, On Deck), Nicolas Dessaigne (Founder, Algolia) and many others.

Future founder promise Do you want to build your own startup eventually but aren’t quite ready? Come work at GraphCDN, and we’ll teach you everything we know about starting something new. Then, once you are ready to start your own company, we’ll be your first angel investors and introduce you to all of our investors!

Who you are We are looking for an experienced Rust engineer to lead the work on GraphCDN’s high-performance gateway. Based on Fastly’s Compute@Edge, this is the core piece of our infrastructure that all requests pass through. You will work closely with the rest of the engineering team to give all our customers’ users a better experience.

This is a mission-critical role. You will be given a high level of autonomy/ownership over your projects, the opportunity to expand your scope of knowledge, and will have a big impact on this company’s future.

Our team is invested in building the best product for our customers. To align our team, we grant meaningful equity in the business. Our equity grants even have anextended exercise window, giving you time and flexibility to buy your options without worrying about massive tax bills.

Our team understands the importance of side projects, building in the open, and giving back through open-source software. Because of this, we use theBalanced Employee IP Agreement (BEIPA), which allows you to maintain ownership of any intellectual property created outside of GraphCDN.

We are a remote-first company looking for talented people to join us in any time zone ranging from GMT-8 (e.g., California) to GMT+6 (e.g., Bangladesh) inany of these 150+ countries. We offer flexibility to employ you officially in your own country or bring you on as a contractor — we are happy to talk through all the legal details if you’re unsure of what makes the most sense for your situation.

We invite the best people from all walks of life to come work with us. We don’t discriminate based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Our application process is flexible, so please let us know how we can make the interview process better for you; we’re happy to accommodate!

One more thing Even if your experience doesn’t exactly match this job description, we know that your curiosity and passion will be enough to set you apart. We want to work with people who have diverse perspectives and backgrounds, will challenge us, and aren’t afraid to rethink the status quo. If this sounds like you, join us — we are excited to hear from you.