[Remote] Senior Rust Engineer — USA

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NextLink Labs is a fast growing technology firm focused on helping companies build, scale, and secure their software applications. They are seeking a motivated Senior Rust Developer to join their Custom Software Development consulting team, responsible for building and maintaining scalable backend services and APIs for clients.

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
• Work in an agile team environment with daily stand ups, and weekly agile meetings
• Engage in code reviews of your teammates' work
• Communicate directly with the client to give demonstrations and receive feedback
• Contribute to observability and monitoring using Tracing and OpenTelemetry

Skills

• 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
• Experience designing and implementing gRPC APIs; Familiarity with Tonic is a plus
• Proficiency with relational, time-series and graph databases - experience with TimescaleDB, Neo4j preferred
• Strong testing practices including unit and integration testing - Familiarity with BDD frameworks like Cucumber is a plus
• Understanding of security best practices including JWT-based authentication and authorization
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable and distributed systems
• 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
• Ability to work independently and take ownership across a variety of software engagements
• Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and problem-solving abilities

Benefits

• Competitive salary with bonus structure
• Remote-first culture, flexible work schedule, and autonomy to do your best work.
• Healthcare (Medical, Dental, and Vision) and 401k
• Paid parental leave
• Responsibility and autonomy at a growing company

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