We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Rust Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of secure, scalable, and high-performance software platforms.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will define engineering standards, architect mission-critical systems, mentor engineers, and drive Rust adoption across large-scale distributed platforms.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years building production systems in Rust
- Proven experience as a Staff, Principal, or Lead Engineer
- Expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and systems programming
- Deep understanding of concurrency, asynchronous programming, networking, and performance optimization
- Strong experience with software architecture, CI/CD, observability, security, and cloud-native platforms
- Track record of delivering business-critical services at scale
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and develop production-grade Rust services and libraries
- Lead technical decisions across multiple engineering teams
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, standards, and best practices
- Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and security
- Mentor engineers and elevate overall Rust capability across the organization
- Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions
