webAI
Senior Rust Platform Engineer
Austin, TX · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 24 days ago
RustBackend DevelopmentCI/CDPlatform EngineeringIntellectual PropertyTest AutomationCommunicationCollaboration
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About the role
- Your work will span systems architecture, backend development, automated delivery, documentation, and developer experience.
- This role is suited to an engineer who can move between low-level technical concerns and clear, practical interfaces for other developers.
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable platform capabilities shared across webAI products.
- Develop backend and systems software with a focus on performance, security, maintainability, and operational reliability.
- Create clear, stable APIs and SDKs for internal and external developers.
- Own features from architecture and implementation through testing, packaging, release, and production support.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for multi-platform builds, automated testing, artifact publishing, and releases.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn product needs into reusable platform capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
- Strong systems-engineering skills, including experience with concurrency, process boundaries, resource management, failure modes, and performance.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
- Experience packaging, versioning, and distributing production software.
- Ability to write maintainable code, effective tests, clear technical documentation, and useful examples.
- Experience diagnosing complex integration, reliability, and performance problems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Professional experience with Rust.
- Experience designing or integrating foreign function interfaces (FFI) and language bindings.
- Experience working across programming-language and process boundaries.
- Strong experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, client libraries, or developer-facing platform interfaces.
- Proven ability to take complex or ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, and release.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience building distributed, peer-to-peer, offline-capable, or edge systems.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package.
- $200/mos Health and Wellness Stipend
- $400/year Continuing Education Credit
- $500/year Function Health subscription (US-based only)
- Unlimited Approved PTO
- Parental Leave for Eligible Employees
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.
Company info
- webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI.
- We recognize the evolving demands of a data-driven society for scalability and flexibility, and we firmly believe that the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge, bringing computation closer to the source of data generation.
- We are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of our users, empowering enterprises with AI that understands their unique business.
- We are a team driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility, and we seek individuals who resonate with these core values and are passionate about shaping the next generation of AI.
- Our mission is to build a future where a company's valuable data and intellectual property remain entirely private, enabling the deployment of large-scale AI models directly on standard consumer hardware without compromising the information embedded within those models.
This listing is sourced directly from webAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.