At first I read this and was really puzzled, thinking why would someone outright refuse a job working on cryptographic products? Like, say, the next Bitlocker, or a PKI implementation in web browsers, or something like that.

Then I remembered about cryptocurrency, and understood.

Even years on, this unfortunately replaced meaning of the term "crypto" still causes a double take!

It will make the job ad filtering hard too

Interesting - so basically you'd like to be able to search for companies using Rust that are NOT in crypto. I can see how that could be useful, just need to figure out how to support it without making filters too complicated.

Serious question: what other industries are using Rust and pay at least as much as your typical web developer?

Assuming that "crypto" was meant to refer only to cryptocurrency, there are a few companies working on non-blockchain/non-cryptocurrency crypto(graphic) tech which are paying as much as web dev jobs.

For example, I stumbled upon ockam.io during my last job search (no affiliation, and never interviewed with them as they weren't actively hiring when I wrote to them last year). I vaguely remember there being a few others, though I can't remember any names off the top of my head (it has definitely gotten harder searching for those kinds of companies as most job ads are drowned out by all the blockchain jobs). Old job posts on https://this-week-in-rust.org/ often contain a few interesting companies.

(Shameless plug: If anyone is interested in working at a non-profit focusing on non-blockchain cryptography in the field of multi-party computation, the company I'm working at is hiring at the moment and the salary ranges [for a 4-day work week] are listed: https://sinefoundation.notion.site/SINE-Job-Board-d28eda00c5...)

I work at Materialize (materialize.com) which is mostly Rust.

(We’re mostly remote, but not entirely — we do have a local contingent in New York, but it accounts for less than half of our people, with the rest scattered throughout the Americas and Europe).

Well pretty much all the big tech companies use Rust to some degree.

The company that I work for makes a b2b wholesale platform. We use Rust on the backend for its reliability. The performance is a nice bonus too.

See, you know the crypto is trustworthy and can't fail or be hacked because it's in Rust!

/s