Senior Rust Developer – Proxy Solution

F5; Canada; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Rust Developer to design and develop high-performance proxy solutions. The role focuses on optimizing systems-level software and requires extensive experience in Rust, networking protocols, and performance optimization. Join a passionate team dedicated to innovation and technical excellence in a full-time, flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Rust with asynchronous runtimes.
• Proven expertise in networking protocols and performance optimization.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design and implementation of core components.
• Optimize low-level networking and memory management.
• Integrate features like live reconfiguration and stream processing.
• Collaborate with teams on networking and systems engineering.

Skills

Extensive experience in Rust

Strong background in systems programming

Expertise in networking protocols

Low-level performance optimization

Concurrency

Job description

Overview

At F5, we strive to bring a better digital world to life. Our teams empower organizations across the globe to create, secure, and run applications that enhance how we experience our evolving digital world. We are passionate about cybersecurity, from protecting consumers from fraud to enabling companies to focus on innovation. Everything we do centers around people. That means we obsess over how to make the lives of our customers, and their customers, better. And it means we prioritize a diverse F5 community where each individual can thrive.

Remote or Onsite | Full-Time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Rust Developer to join our team in designing and developing an enterprise-grade, high-performance proxy solution using Rust. This project features a strong open-source dimension complemented by proprietary extensions. You will build advanced systems-level software by applying proxy-related architectures and techniques. This role requires deep expertise in asynchronous runtimes, networking, and system programming.

Responsibilities

• Design & Implementation: Contribute to the design and implementation of core components of our proxy solution, emphasizing performance, concurrency, and efficient system-level programming.
• Optimization: Fine-tune low-level networking, memory management, and async processing to maximize throughput and minimize latency.
• Feature Development: Integrate capabilities like live reconfiguration and real-time stream processing.
• Collaboration: Work closely with teams specializing in networking, hardware acceleration, and systems engineering while actively contributing to open-source projects.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Rust with a strong background in systems programming and asynchronous runtimes.
• Proven expertise in networking protocols, low-level performance optimization, and concurrency.
• Ability to work independently and effectively within cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with thread-per-core design, live reconfiguration, and stream processing.
• Familiarity with Apache Arrow and DataFusion.
• Background in hardware acceleration techniques (e.g., SIMD, modern CPU architectures).
• Contributions to Rust-based open-source projects.

Why Join Us?

Work on cutting-edge proxy technology that drives high-performance solutions. Join a passionate team dedicated to innovation and technical excellence, and help shape systems that operate at scale while contributing to both our open-source initiatives and proprietary advancements.

The Job Description is intended to be a general representation of the responsibilities and requirements of the job. However, the description may not be all-inclusive, and responsibilities and requirements are subject to change.