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KZ-7471 Principal Recently added

Staff Protocol Engineer

United States
15 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Designed MLS group-state features and bidirectional streaming transport for secure messaging, including ordered delivery, heartbeats, reconnects, external invites, and per-field permissions. Reduced 100-device group-invite storage from 8 MB to 200 KB and reduced full-group database loading from 13 reads to one.

  • Migrated core product infrastructure into Rust
  • Built FFI boundaries for untrusted drivers
  • Enabled PostgreSQL through asynchronous database traits
  • Shipped four protocol improvement proposals
Rust Go TypeScript Swift Kotlin Java
Interviewing now $240k-280k/yr
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WZ-4811 Principal Recently added

Software Engineer / Data Engineer

Canada
22 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered high-performance data processing pipelines using Scala and Rust, focusing on real-time analytics. Designed and maintained distributed systems for large-scale data ingestion and processing.

  • Built microservices architecture using Go and Java
  • Integrated TypeScript for front-end data visualization
  • Optimized C++ algorithms for data compression
Java Scala Go Rust C++ TypeScript
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#HIRED Staff Recently hired

Senior Data Systems Engineer

Canada
8 years
Remote
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
Rust DataFusion Delta Lake PostgreSQL GCP Docker Arrow Kafka
Hired Salary: $XXX,XXX
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WA-6911 Principal

Co-Founder & Head of Engineering

Canada
14 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Builds data platforms and ingestion services with asynchronous Rust, including an open-source ETL framework, a Tokio-based Elasticsearch client, and production APIs for importing and exporting pipeline data. The work combines Rust service architecture with developer-facing tooling for large-scale data workflows.

  • Computer-vision trend detection pipelines
  • RAG agents across web sources
  • Next.js product development
  • Python data-platform services
Rust TypeScript Python JavaScript Golang Java
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LQ-2209 Lead

Lead Software Engineer

United States
32 years
Hybrid
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
Rust Python JavaScript Node.js React PostgreSQL
Available in 2 weeks $200k-250k/yr
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VS-3060 Principal

Senior Backend & Systems Engineer

Poland
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built a Rust complex-event-processing engine that composes reusable processing blocks into Kafka-consuming and Kafka-producing deployments. The system uses Tokio tasks, NATS stage transport, embedded Python execution, and dependency-aware input routing to reproduce production-grade stream-processing architecture.

  • Implemented bidirectional PyO3 type marshalling across the FFI boundary
  • Managed Python GIL boundaries for in-process block execution
  • Developed Linux filesystem drivers and embedded firmware
  • Built distributed event-driven backends in Scala, Java, and Go
Rust Tokio PyO3 Actix Web SQLx rdkafka
Available in 1 month $100k-130k/yr
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YD-8522 Lead

Core Database Engineer

Colombia
30 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Architected scalable database systems using Rust, focusing on high availability and fault tolerance. Led the design of business applications with a strong emphasis on technical specifications.

  • Developed distributed database engines from the ground up
  • Designed architecture for large-scale data warehousing
  • Optimized query execution plans for performance gains
Software Architecture Technical Design Specifications Requirements Definition Technical Documentation Continuous Integration
Interviewing now $60k-80k/yr
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WK-8670 Lead

Rust Engineer

Netherlands
19 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Migrates core components of the Redis RediSearch C query engine to Rust across a performance-sensitive C/Rust boundary while preserving behavior and throughput. Has also co-authored incremental C-to-Rust migration training material and built production Rust services integrating Kafka, backend systems, and infrastructure.

  • Security issue discovery in search infrastructure
  • Rust FFI and C ABI maintenance
  • WebAssembly component development
  • Axum and Tokio service implementation
Rust Tokio Axum FFI C interop WebAssembly
Available in 2 weeks €90k-120k/yr
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SY-2949 Principal

Senior Protocol Engineer

Netherlands
15 years
Hybrid
Employee / Freelancer

Designed Rust execution and storage infrastructure for distributed ledgers, including a payment engine benchmarked at multi-million transactions per second and replay protection using per-account nonces and intent deduplication. Built full-node storage integration, chain reorganization handling, and zero-knowledge-compatible data-availability verification, raising production throughput to 5,000 TPS.

  • Consensus fork selection and state finalization
  • Celestia data publishing integration
  • Prover and verifier storage coordination
  • Production observability infrastructure
Rust Go Python Java Solidity Tokio
Available in 1 month €180k-230k/yr
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AW-1760 Staff

Quantitative Developer

Poland
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Engineered quantitative models using Rust and Python for financial analytics. Managed cloud-based data processing on AWS and Azure, optimizing cost and efficiency.

  • Developed API integrations for trading platforms
  • Utilized Google Cloud for scalable data storage
  • Created dashboards for real-time financial metrics
Rust Python SQL AWS Azure Google Cloud
Available in 2 weeks $120k-150k/yr
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SX-6573 Lead

Tech Lead

France
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Led development of distributed systems using NodeJs and Rust for real-time data processing. Implemented Kafka for event-driven architectures to handle high-throughput data streams. Utilized Redis for caching and fast data access.

  • Integrated GitlabCI for automated testing and deployments
  • Developed monitoring solutions with Kibana
  • Optimized data flow with advanced queuing techniques
NodeJs Kafka Rust Redis GitlabCI Kibana
Available in 1 month $140k-170k/yr
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NW-3325 Senior

Backend Developer

Vietnam
5 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built backend and data platforms using Python, Rust, PostgreSQL, Airflow, and CDC synchronization, including an enterprise warehouse with dimensional modeling and SCD Type 2 history. Implements asynchronous services with epoll-based I/O, binary protocol parsing, database query planning, and safeguards for financially sensitive payout workflows.

  • RBAC-protected operational application for 80 users
  • PostgreSQL B-tree and query-planning knowledge
  • AWS Lambda and S3 deployments
  • Power BI finance and operations analytics
Python Rust SQL Tokio FastAPI Django
Available in 2 weeks $40k-60k/yr
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AA-7411 Principal

Full Stack Engineer

India
12 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Designed and implemented distributed systems for a high-traffic e-commerce platform using Rust and Scala. Optimized database query performance in SQL to handle millions of transactions per day.

  • Built a real-time analytics pipeline in Python
  • Developed microservices architecture with Java
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines using Bash scripts
Scala SQL Bash Rust Java Python
Interviewing now $70k-220k/yr
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GC-5338 Lead

Backend Lead

United Kingdom
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Leads backend architecture for a production trading platform handling real user funds, with single-writer state, idempotent workflows, atomic settlement, and fail-closed reliability controls. Builds low-latency Rust services using Tokio and Axum, including real-time gRPC and WebSocket data pipelines.

  • Normalized multi-source market data with freshness handling
  • Designed bounded-channel backpressure and workload-isolated job queues
  • Operated PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka, and Flink systems
  • Developed Solana programs for on-chain transaction workflows
Rust Tokio Axum Tower Async programming Concurrency
Interviewing now $130k-180k/yr
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QU-8347 Lead

Mobile Software Engineer

France
11 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Builds native Android and iOS products alongside production Rust backends using Axum, taking systems from application design through deployment and monitoring. Applies retrieval-augmented generation and agent orchestration to shipped software, with additional work in interactive 3D and simulation using Bevy.

  • Developed Kotlin applications for Android
  • Built Swift applications for iOS
  • Operated deployments with Firebase and Supabase
  • Prototyped 3D simulations using Bevy
Kotlin Android Swift iOS Rust Axum
Available in 2 weeks Salary on request
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