About the Role
About the Role
The Rust Engineer will join an AI security start-up focused on developing technology for securing autonomous AI agents. This role involves contributing to the core runtime and related tooling while collaborating with senior engineers in a fully remote environment.
What You'll Do
You’ll join a small, high-trust engineering team working on an open-source security runtime and related enterprise security tooling used to govern how AI agents execute code, interact with APIs, and operate safely at scale.
As a Rust Engineer, you’ll contribute directly to the core runtime, SDKs, and supporting infrastructure, taking ownership of meaningful engineering work from day one. You’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers across systems design, security, observability, infrastructure, and developer experience while contributing publicly to open-source projects and communities.
Who You Are
- At least 5 years of experience in building reliable, maintainable systems, with Rust and ideally one of the following: Go, TypeScript, or Python.
- Involvement and contributions to open-source projects or ownership of public technical work.
- Interest in systems programming, security, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
- Strong understanding of clean code, testing, debugging, and performance considerations.
- Curiosity around AI systems, adversarial thinking, and secure software design.
- Background in application security, systems security, supply chain security, or offensive security, highly desirable.
- Experience working with CI/CD, observability, release tooling, or cloud infrastructure would be great.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tooling responsibly within engineering workflows.
- Ability to work independently within a fast-moving engineering environment.
- Excellent written communication skills for documentation, design discussions, and code reviews.
Bonus Points
This Rust Engineer role would suit someone wanting to be part of an early start up, with strong technical skills, and ideally with experience in open-source would be great, someone who has a passion for systems, security, and developer tooling.
Compensation
They are offering a salary of £80,000 - £90,000 plus equity, and the role is fully remote, but you must be based within the UK in order to apply.
How to Apply
To apply for this Rust Engineer role, please send your CV to Jennifer Palmer at IT Recruitment Solutions.
Requirements
Rust programming
At least 5 years of experience in building reliable, maintainable systems with Rust.
Open-source contributions
Involvement and contributions to open-source projects or ownership of public technical work.
Systems programming interest
Interest in systems programming, security, infrastructure, or developer tooling.
Clean code practices
Strong understanding of clean code, testing, debugging, and performance considerations.
AI systems curiosity
Curiosity around AI systems, adversarial thinking, and secure software design.
Nice to Have
Background in application security, systems security, supply chain security, or offensive security.
Experience working with CI/CD, observability, release tooling, or cloud infrastructure.
Benefits
Equity
The role offers equity as part of the compensation package.
Remote work
This position is fully remote.