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WT-3063 Principal Recently added

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
RustCC++SQLSwayTokio
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EK-9668 Principal Recently added

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
RustTokioSerdeMemory SafetyConcurrencyPython
Interviewing now $225-248/hr
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#HIRED Lead Recently hired

Senior Systems 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
RustTokioio_uringeBPFLinuxCAssemblyDocker
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ZN-5717 Lead

Software Team Lead

Netherlands
10 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Provided consulting on high-performance computing with Rust and C++. Developed custom compilers and interpreters for domain-specific languages.

  • Explored functional programming with Scheme and Racket
  • Optimized algorithms for computational efficiency
  • Developed mathematical models in Haskell
RustPythonC++HaskellSchemeRacket
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AL-6478 Lead

Software Engineer

Germany
11 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Rewrote a production compiler targeting x86 and ARM, enabling a product launch through lower-level code-generation work. Delivered CUDA implementations achieving 10–20x speedups and applies Rust, C++, assembly, reverse engineering, and runtime development across blockchain, game-engine, and systems projects.

  • LLVM compiler toolchain development
  • Ghidra and IDA Pro binary analysis
  • ARM and x86 assembly programming
  • GPU kernel optimization with CUDA
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JK-6024 Junior

Computer Science Student and Systems Programmer

United Kingdom
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Built an asynchronous Rust storage and streaming platform using Axum, Tokio, OpenDAL, and SeaORM, with PostgreSQL and SQLite persistence. Designed non-buffering payload delivery, transactional repository abstractions, schema migrations, and RFC-compliant parser crates for HTTP metadata.

  • Background cleanup service for stored objects
  • Multi-module entity relationship modeling
  • Standalone RFC 6266 and 8187 parsers
  • Open-source database infrastructure contributions
RustSeaORMTokioAxumOpenDALSerenity
Available in 2 weeks £24k-28k/yr
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DR-9377 Lead

Lead Rust Systems Engineer

Georgia
6 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Works across kernel-space networking, low-latency trading infrastructure, and on-chain financial protocols, including Linux drivers, order books, and automated market makers. Builds Rust systems ranging from no_std components and C-interoperable modules to high-load Axum services.

  • Implemented Solana governance using program-derived addresses
  • Developed token-based voting smart contracts
  • Built Rust backends with Rocket and Axum
  • Integrated eBPF traffic-control instrumentation
RustSwiftKotlinGoCx86 Assembly
Available in 2 weeks $96k-144k/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
RustTokioPyO3Actix WebSQLxrdkafka
Available in 1 month $100k-130k/yr
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DX-1561 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

United Kingdom
10 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Contributed to a multi-chain cryptocurrency bridge on the Ergo blockchain, implementing secure cross-chain asset transfers and integrations for Bitcoin Runes and Base. Designs event-sourced, domain-driven systems for real-time processing, using distributed messaging and containerized infrastructure across mission-critical environments.

  • Retrieval-augmented generation systems
  • Agentic workflow implementation
  • NATS and RabbitMQ messaging
  • Kubernetes and OpenShift operations
Software ArchitectureDistributed SystemsEvent-Driven SystemsReal-Time SystemsDesign PatternsDomain-Driven Design
Interviewing now $60k-100k/yr
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YX-1151 Principal

Noir Software Engineer

Luxembourg
27 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Developed compiler infrastructure for a zero-knowledge proof language, spanning DSL design, type systems, SSA-based intermediate representations, and optimization passes. Worked across arithmetic circuits, ACIR, R1CS, proving backends, and applied cryptography for performance-critical proof generation.

  • LLVM backend and code-generation expertise
  • Rust and C++ systems programming
  • FIPS 140.2 cryptographic implementation context
  • Blockchain protocol architecture
Team ManagementRecruitmentPerformance AppraisalsEmployee DevelopmentIT Project ManagementProfessional Scrum Master
Interviewing now €120k-180k/yr
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JS-4651 Lead

Senior Software Engineer

Croatia
16 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Develops low-level distributed and hardware-integrated systems spanning Rust, virtual machines, WebAssembly, RISC-V, and compiler engineering. Recent protocol work includes deterministic execution environments and performance improvements for weakly coherent distributed storage.

  • Embedded Linux and real-time systems
  • RS485 and Modbus industrial integrations
  • ARM and x86 assembly
  • GCC and reverse-engineering workflows
RustCPerlLinuxUNIXBash
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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 ArchitectureTechnical DesignSpecificationsRequirements DefinitionTechnical DocumentationContinuous Integration
Interviewing now $60k-80k/yr
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AB-4745 Staff

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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ZM-8787 Senior

Senior Backend Developer

Slovenia
8 years
Remote
Employee / Freelancer

Built backend platforms for SaaS, AI/ML, CRM, mobility, and data-intensive products, including services developed from an empty repository to investor-demo readiness in two months. Delivered asynchronous processing and distributed-service architectures using PostgreSQL, message brokers, WebSockets, vector search, and cloud infrastructure.

  • Qdrant-backed retrieval systems
  • NATS JetStream event processing
  • Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure
  • RabbitMQ workload orchestration
PythonFastAPIDjangoFlaskTornadoGo
Available in 2 weeks €75k-90k/yr
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JW-3364 Junior

Systems Software Developer

United States
1 years
Flexible
Employee / Freelancer

Maintains WebAssembly plugin bindings for a Rust Minecraft server, including automated repository synchronization, compatibility testing, and version releases. Contributed WebAssembly backend work to LLVM and added D-language WIT binding generation, WASI runtime support, WebAssembly exception handling, and garbage-collector compatibility.

  • GlobalISel integration for WebAssembly
  • D-language WIT target support
  • WASI standard-library enablement
  • WebAssembly garbage-collector LLVM pass
DRustCC++PHP 8JavaScript
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