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AB-4745 Staff Recently added

Rust Engineer

Croatia
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed a stable ABI for cross-language Rust interoperability, including an intermediate representation, generated type conversions, validity checks, opaque types, generics, custom DSTs, and runtime tagged dispatch. Added WebAssembly smart-contract execution to Hyperledger Iroha and corrected consensus, fault-handling, and peer-synchronization defects.

  • Unsafe Rust and memory-layout engineering
  • Procedural macro and code-generation tooling
  • cbindgen associated-type resolution
  • Concurrent Java ETL and stream replication
RustUnsafe RustFFICJavaPython
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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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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Senior Rust Engineer

Sweden
10 years
Hybrid
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
RustActixPostgreSQLDockerAWSRedisKafkaKubernetes
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VE-8534 Lead

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
JavaScriptTypeScriptRustPHPPythonJava
Interviewing now $180k-230k/yr
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SJ-1152 Senior

Software Engineer (Go / Rust)

United Kingdom
7 years
Flexible

Engineered real-time AI sign-language video pipelines using Go and Rust, processing SRT and RTMP inputs through audio extraction and AWS MediaLive into low-latency HLS and DASH delivery. Implemented CMAF workflows with fragmented MP4, dual manifests, reconnection handling, and Kubernetes deployment.

  • Picture-in-picture live composition
  • LL-HLS and DASH packaging
  • FFmpeg media-processing pipelines
  • Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure
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ET-1108 Senior

Rust Engineer & Founder

France
9 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds Rust backend services, compilers, domain-specific languages, and embedded-systems software. Created a Rust implementation of a custom programming language, shipped PostgreSQL-backed production APIs, and maintains open-source packages across crates.io and npm.

  • Designed REST and WebSocket interfaces
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and schemas
  • Built reproducible environments with NixOS
  • Won an IEEE hardware-demo award for side-channel tooling
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Interviewing now €80k-100k/yr
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VS-8130 Senior

Senior Rust Engineer

France
4 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Develops Rust systems spanning embedded control software for marine vessels and drones, backend services, and WebAssembly applications. Co-created a real-time collaborative audio workstation using Rust, WASM, and CRDTs, combining low-latency state synchronization with cross-platform interfaces.

  • ESP32 and NVIDIA Jetson embedded targets
  • CAN, Modbus, and NMEA protocol integration
  • Flight-controller software for autonomous drones
  • Substrate and Ink! smart-contract development
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Interviewing now $100k-120k/yr
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JZ-2553 Senior

Embedded Software Engineer - Rust & Embedded Linux

Italy
7 years
Remote
Employee

Developed embedded Linux systems with Rust for real-time applications. Designed custom kernel modules to enhance system performance.

  • Integrated SQL databases for embedded data management
  • Implemented C-based drivers for hardware interfaces
  • Optimized Bash scripts for system automation
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Available in 2 months €50k-70k/yr
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NP-3228 Principal

Principal Rust Engineer

United Kingdom
23 years
Remote
Freelancer

Works across Rust, WebAssembly, Python, TypeScript, Java, and Apache Spark. The available profile indicates a systems and data-engineering focus, but does not provide specific infrastructure scale, protocol domains, or project outcomes.

  • WebAssembly runtime development
  • Apache Spark data processing
  • Python automation tooling
  • TypeScript application development
RustWebAssemblyPythonTypeScriptJavaApache Spark
Interviewing now $120-170/hr
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EX-8113 Lead

Linux toolchain - open source, rust and compiler developer

Germany
14 years
Flexible
Employee

Contributed to the development of Linux toolchains and compilers with a focus on Rust integration. Enhanced system performance by optimizing kernel interactions.

  • Developed custom modules for illumos and FreeBSD
  • Optimized compilers for cross-platform compatibility
  • Led open-source contributions to the Linux kernel
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Available in 3+ months €150k-180k/yr
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SG-6167 Senior

Software Engineer

Belgium
17 years
Hybrid
Employee

Engineered low-latency trading systems in C++ and Rust, focusing on performance optimization. Contributed to Linux kernel modules for enhanced system security.

  • Automated deployment pipelines using Python
  • Implemented cross-platform C# applications
  • Developed simulation tools in C
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AN-2590 Principal

Software / Research Engineer

Germany
28 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Works on Rust asynchronous systems and modular applications while applying long-term maintainability practices to complex enterprise codebases. Current research projects combine C++, CUDA, LibTorch, and tch-rs for GPU-accelerated machine-learning and numerical workloads.

  • CUDA and GPU resource integration
  • IPC and process-level resource management
  • CMake, Cargo, Docker, and GitHub Actions
  • Incremental refactoring of large Java systems
RustAsynchronous ProgrammingModular Application DesignC++CUDAGPU Integration
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WT-3063 Principal

Independent Systems Research & Consulting

Spain
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and implemented distributed systems for high-availability services using Rust and Python. Led teams in developing blockchain-based applications with a focus on smart contract security.

  • Optimized SQL databases for performance and scalability
  • Authored technical documentation for complex system architectures
  • Contributed to open-source distributed ledger projects
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ER-6619 Staff

Senior Software Engineer

Cyprus
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built GPU-resident simulation infrastructure for physically based animation, open-ended multi-agent environments, and reinforcement-learning workloads. Implemented pipeline-parallel decentralized LLM inference that streams intermediate activations across machines, plus WASI-based RPC interfaces between processes and nodes.

  • CUDA miner reaching 150 proofs per second
  • Correctness-gated autoresearch profiling harness
  • llama.cpp, tinygrad, and Candle integration
  • Embedding-based decentralized recommendation indexers
RustZigPythonCUDASlangWGSL
Interviewing now $150k-225k/yr
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RC-1518 Lead

Senior Blockchain Engineer

Australia
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered a decentralized finance protocol on Ethereum, focusing on security and gas optimization. Developed smart contract frameworks for Solana, enabling efficient cross-chain transactions. Contributed to the core development of a blockchain consensus mechanism, enhancing throughput and latency.

  • Created a custom Rust-based library for cryptographic operations
  • Integrated TypeScript tooling for blockchain application interfaces
  • Designed a Solidity-based tokenomics model for a new crypto asset
  • Built a cross-platform wallet application with advanced security features
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Interviewing now $50k-80k/yr
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