Rust Backend Engineers & Full-Stack Developers
ProxyBase (https://proxybase.xyz)ProxyBase (https://proxybase.xyz) | Rust Backend Engineers & Full-Stack Developers | Remote (Global) | Full-Time | $100k-$160k + Equity
Hey HN, we’re ProxyBase. We’re building an API-first, fully headless SOCKS5 proxy network designed specifically for autonomous AI agents, LLM tool-calling, and large-scale web scraping.
Most traditional proxy networks operate in a bit of a gray area—they buy bandwidth harvested from sneaky, hidden SDK bundles embedded inside free apps. We're doing things differently:
100% Ethical Sourcing: We pay our node operators directly. People run our open-source CLI client to share their bandwidth and earn microcredits in real-time. It’s fully transparent, consent-driven, and compensated.
Built for Swarms, Not Dashboards: AI agents and automated workflows can provision, utilize, dynamically route (via metadata in the SOCKS5 auth string), and settle proxy fees entirely programmatically using US based stable coins without ever touching a manual web dashboard.
Our Tech Stack:
Backend: Rust (Actix-web, SQLite/DashMap, WebSockets, Yamux stream multiplexing)
Frontend / Desktop: React, TypeScript, Tauri (our client-side bridge app)
What we're looking for:
Backend Engineer (Rust): Help us scale our high-concurrency SOCKS5-to-WebSocket relay gateway and real-time ledger settlement engines.
Full-Stack Developer (TypeScript / Tauri / Rust): Own our local proxy bridging software, client-side developer portal, and integration libraries.
If you like systems-level programming (TCP/UDP, tunnel multiplexing, concurrent state) and want to work on clean, developer-first infrastructure, we'd love to chat.
Drop us a line at
jobs@proxybase.xyz
with a bit about what you've built.
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