Senior Staff Rust Developer

What you'll do

• Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput Rust data forwarding plane and distributed systems.
• Implement and maintain gRPC APIs and services connecting forwarding capabilities with control and orchestration layers; optimize performance across kernel and user space.
• Participate in code reviews, system design, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers.

What they ask for

• Extensive Rust coding experience, particularly in systems programming and async frameworks such as Tokio or async-std.
• Expertise building resilient, observable, horizontally scalable distributed systems.
• Strong Linux fundamentals, including networking, namespaces, sockets, and kernel-user space interaction.
• Proficiency with container-based environments, Git, CI/CD workflows, and performance instrumentation; foundational understanding of AI/ML technologies and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience with C/C++ or Go in performance-critical environments; familiarity with Linux networking stacks, eBPF or DPDK, and Kubernetes networking or service meshes.
• Hands-on experience with gRPC, Protobufs, and L2–L4 protocols such as TCP/IP, QUIC, or routing encapsulations; ability to use AI workflows to improve operational efficiency.

Pay

$180,000 — $225,000 USD base salary

Tools

Rust, Tokio, async-std, Linux, Git, CI/CD, gRPC, Protobufs

AI focus

Requires foundational AI/ML understanding and experience leveraging, securing, or positioning AI-driven solutions; preferred experience using AI workflows to improve operational efficiency.