Remote Rust Engineer for Open-Source Systems

YO IT Consulting; Dubai; On-site; AED 201,000 - 391,000; Full time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting seeks a Rust Engineer to contribute to open-source systems from a remote setup. You will develop production-quality Rust components, review existing architecture and crates, and design features that balance performance and safety while aligning with project conventions.

The ideal candidate brings strong Rust expertise, experience with open-source collaboration, and a focus on memory-safe, concurrent systems within distributed codebases.

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to open-source or collaboratively maintained software.
• Strong Rust skills with emphasis on safety, performance, and correctness.
• Familiarity with Git-based development and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-quality Rust components for approved open-source repositories.
• Review architecture, crates, dependencies, interfaces, and project conventions.
• Design algorithms and system features meeting functional and performance requirements.
• Strengthen error handling and ensure observability of failures.

Skills

Rust programming

Open-source contribution

Ownership and borrowing

Lifetimes and type safety

Cargo

Asynchronous Rust

Concurrent systems

Memory-safe development

Systems programming

Distributed codebases

Algorithm design

Error handling

Debugging and profiling

Performance optimization

Automated testing

API development

Git workflows

Pull-request review

Technical documentation

C

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

Tools

Cargo

Job description

YO IT Consulting seeks a Rust Engineer to contribute to open-source systems from a remote setup. You will develop production-quality Rust components, review existing architecture and crates, and design features that balance performance and safety while aligning with project conventions.

The ideal candidate brings strong Rust expertise, experience with open-source collaboration, and a focus on memory-safe, concurrent systems within distributed codebases.