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Senior Rust Engineer
RustJobs Remote - Canada 🇨🇦
RustJobs We’re hiring a Senior Rust Engineer to help build a new Rust-based workflow and rules engine for a well-established product company operating at significant scale.
The work sits close to infrastructure and platform concerns, with a strong focus on correctness, reliability, concurrency, and performance in production systems.
The company is looking for an engineer who enjoys ownership, autonomy, and solving real business and systems problems end-to-end. You’ll work closely with technical leadership and help shape Rust adoption internally.
What You’ll Work On
- Design and build production Rust services powering critical platform workflows
- Work on distributed systems and infrastructure-oriented backend engineering
- Help define engineering direction and best practices around Rust internally
- Collaborate closely with senior engineering leadership on architecture and technical decisions
- Build systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, correctness, and maintainability
- Contribute to a fast-moving, high-ownership engineering culture
Requirements
- Strong production Rust experience
- Experience with distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or platform engineering
- Comfortable working with async/concurrent systems
- Experience owning systems in production environments
- Startup or scale-up mentality with strong bias for action
- Ability to operate autonomously with high ownership
Strong bonus points for experience with:
- Tokio
- High-performance backend systems
- Reliability-focused engineering
- Developer infrastructure or workflow systems
- AI-assisted engineering workflows
Ideal Background
- Senior or Staff-level backend/infrastructure engineer
- Experience building and operating production systems at scale
- Pragmatic engineer who enjoys balancing technical depth with execution
- Stable career history with meaningful ownership in previous roles
Location
- Remote within Canada
- No hiring in Quebec
- Occasional in-person meetings expected in Toronto or Vancouver
Compensation
Competitive compensation package including salary, bonus, and meaningful equity.
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Please send your CV, LinkedIn, GitHub, or any relevant Rust/open-source work to:
Application process
- Your application goes directly to the Rust Jobs team. We manage hiring for this role on behalf of the company.
- Every CV is read by a human, not a filter. We assess it against the requirements before anything else happens.
- If your application is a strong fit, we'll reach out by email to introduce ourselves and walk you through the next steps with the company.
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