Senior Rust Engineer - Edge & Mobile

Jobgether; Australia; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer (Edge – Devices & Mobile) based in Australia to build and scale a cross-platform Rust peer runtime across Windows, Android, and Linux, with macOS upcoming. You will own critical infrastructure, focusing on performance, security, and reliability for a globally distributed fleet.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, expanding to Android via NDK/JNI, and integrating native networking tech.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Rust.
• Experience building cross-platform Rust apps on Windows, Android, Linux; macOS is a plus.
• Strong FFI experience with C/C++ and native OS APIs (JNI/NDK, Win32, POSIX).
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP, TLS, HTTP; analyze and inspect traffic.
• Experience with async Rust (Tokio/Tonic) and observability/production operations.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain a cross-platform Rust peer runtime for Windows, Android, Linux, with macOS future support.
• Manage process lifecycles, networking, updates, and stability across diverse hardware.
• Lead platform expansion to Android using NDK and JNI, including foreground services and battery optimization.
• Integrate native networking tech (Cronet, C++) into Rust libraries with safe FFI.
• Work with OS APIs and FFIs, ensuring memory safety and cross-language interoperability.
• Collect signals (TCP, TLS, HTTP) to improve realism and support anti-detection teams.
• Develop device-level observability and performance metrics (uptime, bandwidth, availability).
• Expand capabilities to support more workloads and maintain security around untrusted content.
• Participate in on-call rotations, post-mortems, and deployment improvements.
• Contribute to docs, architecture proposals, and engineering standards for Rust cross-platforms.

Skills

Rust

Cross-platform development

Networking (TCP/TLS/HTTP)

Async Rust (Tokio/Tonic)

Observability & production ops

Remote collaboration

Tools

JNI/NDK

Cronet

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

gRPC

Protocol Buffers

Win32

POSIX

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer (Edge – Devices & Mobile) based in Australia to build and scale a cross-platform Rust peer runtime across Windows, Android, and Linux, with macOS upcoming. You will own critical infrastructure, focusing on performance, security, and reliability for a globally distributed fleet.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams, expanding to Android via NDK/JNI, and integrating native networking tech.