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EU-4988 Senior Recently added

CTO & Founding Engineer (Rust)

United States
7 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected Rust event-driven services on AWS EKS processing more than one million concurrent interaction events across multiple production deployments. Built exactly-once pipelines across Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, with sub-second delivery and automated infrastructure managed through Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD.

  • LGTM observability stack
  • Backpressure-aware event processing
  • AI recommendation infrastructure
  • GitOps deployment automation
RustGoPythonTypeScriptRubyJavaScript
Interviewing now $150k-200k/yr
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VE-8534 Lead Recently added

Senior Rust Engineer

United States
19 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds Rust and Bun microservices for real-time, AI-driven threat detection and security intelligence. Has designed Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS and worked across e-commerce fulfillment optimization, cloud platforms, multidimensional databases, and headless commerce.

  • API architecture and developer advocacy
  • E-commerce date-delivery optimization
  • Data migration and platform modernization
  • Security and regulatory compliance engineering
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Interviewing now $180k-230k/yr
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#HIRED Senior Recently hired

Staff Rust Developer

United States
10 years
On-site
Employee
Experienced software engineer with strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architecture. Proven track record delivering production systems at scale. Skilled in designing fault-tolerant services, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and mentoring junior developers across cross-functional teams.
  • Led migration of monolithic system to microservices architecture
  • Built high-throughput data pipeline processing 1M+ events per second
  • Designed and implemented real-time monitoring and alerting platform
RustAxumKafkaKubernetesTerraformgRPCDockerRedis
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JT-3660 Principal

Senior Rust Software Engineer

United States
14 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected a high-throughput distributed messaging system using Rust and Go, handling millions of messages per second. Developed a low-latency trading platform with C++ and Rust, optimizing for microsecond-level performance.

  • Designed a custom blockchain protocol in Rust
  • Implemented a real-time data analytics engine in Python
  • Contributed to a large-scale microservices architecture using Java
RustGoC++PythonJavaC
Interviewing now $120k-140k/yr
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SR-7371 Principal

Senior Rust Engineer

United States
13 years
Employee / Freelancer

Built blockchain-based smart contract solutions using Rust and Solidity, focusing on security and efficiency. Developed concurrent systems for financial transaction processing with Rust's async capabilities.

  • Implemented decentralized applications on Ethereum
  • Enhanced Go-based microservices for scalability
  • Optimized cryptographic algorithms for blockchain security
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Interviewing now $120k-150k/yr
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NB-3142 Senior

Senior Rust Backend Engineer

United States
6 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Specialized in backend system optimization using Rust and C++17/20, focusing on high-performance data processing. Developed scalable data pipelines with SQL and Go for real-time analytics.

  • Integrated TypeScript for frontend enhancements
  • Optimized Python scripts for data transformation
  • Developed cross-platform applications with C++
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Available in 2 weeks $150k-200k/yr
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ER-9314 Senior

Sr Specialist Rust Software Engineer

United States
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads Rust development in a secured laboratory while migrating legacy C++ library code to memory-safe implementations. Combines systems programming with mathematical analysis, concurrent execution, and production operations across database and cloud environments.

  • Top-secret cleared software development environments
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle database systems
  • Kubernetes deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Python-based data analysis and visualization
RustPythonPHPSvelteTypeScriptLinux
Available in 2 weeks $170k-185k/yr
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LQ-2209 Lead

Lead Software Engineer

United States
32 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed a Kafka-fed Rust caching service for a sanctions platform whose nightly database workload reached approximately 21 billion requests. The architecture reduced that traffic to fewer than four million requests while supporting migration from legacy sanctions workflows into a PostgreSQL-backed platform.

  • Built real-time backend services with Python and Node.js
  • Developed React interfaces for sanctions operations
  • Modernized end-of-life application workflows
  • Eliminated recurring manual database updates
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Available in 2 weeks $180k-225k/yr
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EK-9668 Principal

Senior Systems & Software Engineer

United States
27 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Develops crash-resilient Rust and Python services around asynchronous event streams, binary protocols, WAL-backed storage, and POSIX concurrency primitives. Combines API security engineering with property-based testing, constant-time cryptography, and distributed resilience patterns.

  • BOLA and IDOR authorization boundary audits
  • PostgreSQL WAL and SQLite FTS5 systems
  • Circuit breakers and concurrency bulkheads
  • AST-based query gating for secure APIs
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Interviewing now $225-248/hr
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UQ-2268 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

United States
12 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built infrastructure, observability pipelines, and automated performance guardrails for a high-volume messaging platform. Operated across distributed data systems and microservices, focusing on message-delivery reliability, latency reduction, and production incident mitigation.

  • Rust services using Tokio asynchronous runtimes
  • Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and KDB data systems
  • Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure
  • Python and Go backend services
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AN-6017 Staff

Senior / Staff Software Engineer

United States
20 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected high-performance systems using Java and C++, focusing on scalability and reliability. Developed cloud-based solutions leveraging Python for automation.

  • Implemented Go for concurrent application services
  • Created JavaScript interfaces for web applications
  • Optimized C algorithms for system efficiency
GoRustPythonCC++Java
Interviewing now $190k-270k/yr
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ZP-2585 Senior

Senior Blockchain & Backend Engineer

United States
13 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built low-latency Solana and DeFi trading infrastructure in asynchronous Rust and Go, including multi-venue arbitrage, Drift automation, and Anchor-based on-chain programs. Implemented Yellowstone gRPC market-data streaming, Jupiter routing, Jito bundle submission, and transaction simulation for automated execution reliability.

  • Bridged Rust services with Python using PyO3
  • Built asynchronous backend services with Tokio and Axum
  • Integrated PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, and Oracle databases
  • Automated containerized delivery through Docker and GitHub Actions
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Interviewing now $90k-140k/yr
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EF-5005 Lead

Senior Rust Engineer

United States
18 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Led the development of distributed database systems handling petabyte-scale data. Designed and optimized consensus protocols for high-availability services.

  • Architected microservices for real-time financial data processing
  • Implemented low-latency trading algorithms in Rust
  • Developed scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
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Interviewing now $120k-140k/yr
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ND-7096 Staff

Staff Software Engineer

United States
6 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Works on production Rust infrastructure spanning graph-based API execution and cloud-service integrations, including debugging complex asynchronous execution behavior. Builds developer-facing tooling across command-line applications, REST APIs, and single-page web applications.

  • Implemented cancellation for abandoned HTTP requests
  • Resolved JWKS authentication and key-discovery issues
  • Added user-configurable CORS behavior
  • Maintained an AWS SDK serving billions of monthly requests
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Interviewing now $100k-200k/yr
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JV-9591

Rust Security Engineer

United States
Remote
Freelancer

Designed a fail-closed Rust zero-trust platform combining Landlock worker isolation, encrypted vault storage, credential brokering, and tamper-evident audit logging. Implemented threat-detection workflows using YARA-X and STIX 2.1, backed by fuzzing, concurrency modeling, and supply-chain verification.

  • Argon2id and XChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption
  • Ed25519 release signing and attestations
  • Six cargo-fuzz targets with millions of executions
  • Hash-chained audit ledger construction
RustPythonCC++Security Platform EngineeringZero-Trust Architecture
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