Nextlinklabs
Senior Rust Engineer — USA
United States · Senior
No sponsorship$130k-$180kDetected 40 days ago
PythonGoRustC#.NETDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentCode ReviewAzureKubernetesGrafanagRPCKafkaWebSocketsBDDCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- NextLink Labs is seeking a motivated Senior Rust Developer with a strong background in systems programming and distributed services to join our Custom Software Development consulting team.
- If you are a self-motivated engineer looking to take ownership of your work, we invite you to join our team at NextLink Labs.
- Work in an agile team environment with daily stand ups, and weekly agile meetings
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Rust
- Work with other engineers to architect and implement modular, well-structured solutions across workspace crates (model, domain, data, service)
- Build gRPC services for inter-service communication
- Build and optimize data access layers for relational, time-series and graph databases
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building backend services, with at least 2-3yrs building production systems in Rust
- Strong understanding of Clean Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and actor-based concurrency patterns
- We believe that in order for companies, teams, and products to succeed, technology must be utilized effectively and securely.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Tokio or an equivalent async runtime
- Experience with async query tool kits such as SQLx
- Experience with distributed application runtimes such as Dapr or Restate
- Experience with HTTP frameworks such as Axum including WebSocket support
- Familiarity with event streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka
- Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes - familiarity with AKS, Grafana, and Azure Monitor/Application Insights is a plus
- Strong understanding of observability principles. experience with OpenTelemetry preferred
- Familiarity with one other backend language, such as C#/.NET, Golang, or Python
Compensation
- Compensation Range is USD $130,000 — $180,000 annually
Visa & Work Authorization
- At this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or take over sponsorship for existing visas.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.
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