Senior Development Engineer (Rust)

About Us:

Founded in 2002 in Sydney, with offices in India and a presence across the Americas and Europe, Prospecta is a leading data management software company. Our flagship platform, Master Data Online (MDO), enables accurate, compliant, and relevant master data for asset-intensive industries including Energy, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Infrastructure, and Manufacturing.

We pride ourselves on agility, collaboration, and innovation delivering real value to customers while fostering a diverse, growth-driven culture that encourages learning, embraces challenges, and celebrates success.

About the Job:

Position: Senior Development Engineer

Location: Sydney, Australia

Role Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to build high-performance, scalable backend systems for Prospecta’s next-generation data infrastructure platform. This role requires strong expertise in production-grade Rust, async programming, and systems-level problem solving, along with the ability to independently drive complex technical solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Must Have:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in Java and at least 2+ years of hands-on production Rust development.
• Strong expertise in asynchronous Rust programming using Tokio or similar frameworks.
• Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, allocations, and buffer management.
• Experience building and shipping production-grade distributed or high-performance backend systems.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, backpressure handling, cancellation, streams, and async execution models.
• Ability to independently solve technically ambiguous problems and deliver working solutions.
• Experience designing APIs, libraries, or reusable engineering frameworks.
• Strong debugging, problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Good to Have:

• Experience with high-throughput data processing systems or streaming architectures.
• Familiarity with columnar data formats or large structured datasets.
• Experience with gRPC in Rust.
• Exposure to cloud platforms and data lakes storage services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Understanding of query optimization concepts such as partitioning or predicate pushdown.
• Experience working in enterprise SaaS or B2B product environments.
• Exposure to data governance, data quality, or rules-engine platforms.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and distributed systems architecture.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or contributing to technical leadership initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Systems & Software Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Rust/Java.
• Build scalable and reliable asynchronous systems using concurrency patterns.
• Optimize system throughput, latency, memory usage, and I/O performance for large-scale data processing workloads.
• Develop robust APIs, internal libraries, and reusable engineering components.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.

Performance & Reliability

• Analyze and improve memory allocation patterns, buffer ownership, and serialization performance.
• Implement efficient processing strategies for streaming and large structured datasets.
• Ensure code quality, maintainability, and production readiness through testing, debugging, and code reviews.
• Identify bottlenecks proactively and recommend scalable engineering solutions.

Collaboration & Delivery

• Work closely with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver solutions aligned with business goals.
• Operate effectively in technically ambiguous environments and independently drive implementation approaches.
• Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across the team.
• Collaborate with distributed global teams while ensuring effective communication and delivery alignment.

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