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What is Caurus?
- Our mission is to build the best communications infrastructure in the world
- There is currently a generational opportunity to rebuild our cellular networks from the ground up, with modern software practices, using open standards and interfaces – this is the true moonshot of 5G.
- We fit in by building software to build 5G networks
- We believe that critical critical communications software built today should be written in Rust
- Making it easier for networks to be designed, tested, installed, and operated.
- Building libraries and SDKs that make it easier to interact with 5G networks
- Tooling designed from the ground up to be simple, reliable, and secure.
- Minimal footprint and memory safe.
- Data integration
- Automated testing for network updates
Building the team at Caurus – hiring around 5 technical pillars
Data
One of the leading ongoing challenges for 5G network operators is connecting a variety of data sources from an increasingly wide variety of vendors and environments. You will be asked to both act as a consultant to our pilot customers to help solve immediate problems, as well as think ahead to what makes the most sense at scale. You will be driving future product decisions and leading the implementation of this software.
Infrastructure
There is a shift to the cloud underway across all sectors. That shift is happening in telecom, but it is much more recent, and much more complex than most other sectors. Effectively integrating resources and environments across multiple cloud providers, datacenters, MECs, and embedded hardware into a cohesive and coherent unified system is a frustratingly hard challenge. In every case we've seen with deploying a 5G network, this has been the biggest persistent blocker and source of delays and cost overruns. You are someone that takes pride in making sense of messy infrastructure, while showing respect and leading with a desire to understand, and always improving and building better. When done well, it brings a sense of calm and momentum towards a future that feels real and achievable.
Security
The wireless technology generations before 5G essentially used specialized hardware and software throughout the entire telecommunications stack. As 5G allows operators to employ commodity network hardware and increasingly cloud-first infrastructure deployments, their attack surface increases by all the typical Internet- and network-based attack vectors, while their traditional security model of tight physical security combined with obscure, specialized technology becomes less relevant as network components are disaggregated to distributed systems. This increased complexity in network topology of components with critical security and availability requirements heightens the need for better observability, as well as network and component hardening. Navigating this combination of network and cloud security, infrastructure hardening, and telecommunications-specific complexity make for a unique, cross-disciplinary challenge.
Wireless
Sitting where we do at the intersection of the software and physical layer, having deep understanding and practical experience with the hardware layer of the network is important. Also critical is combining the best of what's been done in the software industry with what's been done in the wireless world. We're hiring for someone who will be lead on all things wireless engineering, from spectral optimization to firmware improvements on the radios, who can help us truly build on what is out there and leverage the learnings of the broader telecom industry.
Interface Design
Pushing the boundaries on interfaces, making lightweight and distributable WASM applications that network operators can get fast, reliable insights into the workings of their infrastructure. Valuable technical experience here could be having built useful CLI tooling.
Leadership principle
Across all 5, thought leadership is expected (if not yet demonstrated, there is room for growth if the desire is real). This can take many forms, from sharing best practices in peer groups and open source commiunities, to a passion for clear and impactful documentation, to sharing what you know and what you're learning in the public sphere (blog posts, podcasts, etc).