Principal Rust Engineer

We’re hiring on behalf of a client in the enterprise software space, a company undertaking a significant growth initiative with a goal to scale annual revenue from $3B to $6B. As part of this ambitious transformation, they are launching a high-impact project and looking for a Principal Software Engineer with deep expertise in Rust, particularly Async Rust and Tokio.

This is a career-defining opportunity to help shape a foundational system for a major enterprise. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who has held long-term roles (multi-year tenures) and thrives in complex, performance-critical environments.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect and build scalable, high-performance backend systems in Rust.
• Lead critical aspects of a greenfield project with direct impact on business growth.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across engineering and product.
• Mentor team members and contribute to establishing best practices in Rust-based development.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extensive hands-on experience with Rust, particularly in asynchronous contexts.
• Strong proficiency with Tokio, and a deep understanding of async patterns and concurrency.
• Proven track record in long-term, senior-level roles (no job hoppers).
• Experience building distributed or high-throughput systems is a plus.
• You must be located in either the Pacific or Mountain Time Zones in the US or Canada.

If you’re a principled, pragmatic engineer who loves working in Rust and is ready to take ownership of real-world systems at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

Send your resume to enterprise enterprise@rustjobs.dev