PubNub
Senior Software Engineer, Core Systems (Rust)
US - Remote (Bay Area preferred) · Senior
No sponsorship$140k-$170kDetected 34 days ago
GoDistributed SystemsRedisCassandraDynamoDBAWSCloud PlatformsKubernetesIncident Response
About the role
- You'll work on services that power messaging, eventing, presence, storage, history, search, and fanout across our globally distributed platform.
- You'll help evolve systems that process trillions of transactions each month, with a focus on reliability, performance, observability, and operational excellence.
- Improve system reliability and operational resilience.
Responsibilities
- Build core distributed systems in Rust.
- Design scalable and fault-tolerant platform services.
- Develop messaging, storage, and eventing infrastructure.
- Own services from development through production operations.
- Create metrics, dashboards, alerts, and runbooks.
- Support incident response and capacity planning.
- Optimize latency, throughput, and system performance.
- Strong experience building production systems in Rust.
- Join PubNub's Core team and help build the systems that power real-time applications worldwide. If you enjoy distributed systems, Rust, and operating services at scale, we'd like to hear from you.
- Join PubNub's Core team and help build the systems that power real-time applications worldwide.
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience operating production services at scale.
- Experience with Kubernetes-based environments.
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where they are hired.
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS infrastructure.
- Experience with Cassandra, DynamoDB, Redis, or Aurora.
- Exposure to Go or Python.
- Strong observability and debugging experience.
- Experience supporting high-scale distributed systems.
- Bay Area candidates preferred.
- Work on distributed systems operating at global scale.
- Solve reliability, performance, and scalability challenges.
Skills
- Work across cloud infrastructure and data systems.
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve engineering workflows.
Compensation
- Compensation range: $140,000-$170,000 per year, plus equity eligibility. Compensation is determined based on experience, skills, location, and business needs.
Equal opportunity
- PubNub is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees and applicants.
- Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without regard to legally protected characteristics.
- PubNub is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees and applicants. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs without regard to legally protected characteristics.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where they are hired.
- PubNub does not provide employment visa sponsorship for this role.
This listing is sourced directly from PubNub's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.