Principal Rust Engineer (m/f/d)

About the role

We are looking for a highly experienced Principal Rust Engineer to lead the architecture, design, and development of secure, scalable, and high‑performance software platforms. This hands‑on technical leadership position will define engineering standards, mentor engineers, and drive Rust adoption across large‑scale distributed systems.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and develop production‑grade Rust services and libraries.
• Lead technical decisions across multiple engineering teams and ensure engineering excellence through code reviews and standards.
• Improve system performance, reliability, scalability, and security.
• Mentor engineers and elevate Rust capability organization‑wide.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Security, SRE, and Delivery teams to deliver scalable solutions.

Required profile

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years building production systems in Rust.
• Proven experience as a Staff, Principal, or Lead Engineer.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, backend engineering, and systems programming.

Required skills

• Rust programming language.
• Concurrency, asynchronous programming, networking, and performance optimization.
• Software architecture, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security.
• Cloud‑native platforms and distributed system design.