Senior Rust Engineer

About the Role

The Senior Rust Engineer will design and build high-performance backend systems in Rust for a fast-growing AI infrastructure startup. This role involves developing low-latency services, optimizing performance, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver production-ready features.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build high-performance backend systems in Rust.
• Develop low-latency, highly reliable services that operate at large scale.
• Build infrastructure for AI model serving, inference, routing, and distributed systems.
• Optimize performance, memory usage, and concurrency across critical services.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to rapidly ship production-ready features.
• Drive architectural decisions and contribute to engineering best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong professional experience with Rust.
• Experience building distributed systems, networking services, or infrastructure software.
• Deep understanding of systems programming, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern DevOps workflows.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with LLM infrastructure or AI platforms.
• Familiarity with model serving, inference engines, or API gateways.
• Experience working with high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Previous startup experience.

Why Join?

• Competitive compensation ($200K–$260K base + equity).
• Opportunity to build core infrastructure for cutting-edge AI products.
• High ownership with direct impact on technical direction.
• Work alongside a world-class engineering team in San Francisco.