Senior Rust Engineer (80-100%)

Threema; Freienbach; Ibrido; CHF 140.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible hours

Remote work 2 days/week

Work from anywhere 2 weeks/year

Own hardware

Public transport discount

Descrizione del lavoro

Threema, the world’s secure messenger, seeks a Senior Rust Engineer to design and build backend services for messaging, presence, and end-to-end encryption. You’ll join a small team that values correctness, performance, and simplicity, writing production Rust, reviewing code, and shaping architecture from day one.

You’ll work on high-throughput, low-latency systems, own services end-to-end, and collaborate across teams in a hybrid work setup.

Competenze

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• At least 2 years writing Rust in production.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, memory management, and systems programming.
• Experience with distributed systems and high-throughput backends.
• Degree in computer science or equivalent.

Mansioni

• Design and build backend services in Rust for high-throughput messaging backend.
• Work on core infrastructure: queues, delivery guarantees, connections, storage.
• Debug and optimize under production load.
• Review code and mentor others on Rust patterns.
• Take ownership end-to-end from design to deployment.

Conoscenze

Rust production

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Low-latency

Communication

Formazione

CS degree or equivalent

Strumenti

Tokio

Networking

Storage engines

Rust patterns

Descrizione del lavoro

Threema is the world’s best-selling secure messenger for both private users and businesses. Since 2012, we have been working tirelessly to ensure that our users can communicate freely without worrying about their privacy. Our growing user base includes millions of private customers and thousands of businesses and organizations from all over the world.

We are growing and looking for a new team member to join as a

Senior Rust Engineer Backend (80-100%)

The role

We're looking for a senior engineer to help design and build the core services behind our messaging backend. You'll work on the systems that handle message delivery, real-time presence, and end-to-end encryption at scale. Most of our backend is written in Rust, and we're expanding it further.

You'll join a small team of engineers who care about correctness, performance, and keeping things simple. Expect to write production code, review other people's code, and have a say in architecture decisions from day one.

What you'll do

• Design and build backend services in Rust that handle high-throughput, low-latency messaging traffic
• Work on core infrastructure: message queues, delivery guarantees, connection handling, and storage layers
• Debug and optimize systems under real production load, not just in benchmarks
• Review code and mentor other engineers on Rust patterns and systems design
• Take ownership of a service end to end, from design through deployment and maintenance
  
  

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years writing Rust in production
• Solid understanding of concurrency, memory management, and systems programming
• Experience with distributed systems: what happens when a network partitions, a node dies, or a queue backs up
• Comfort working close to the metal when needed, whether that's networking, storage engines, or protocol design
• Experience in working on scalable, low-latency, high-throughput systems.
• Good communication skills. You'll need to explain trade-offs to people who don't write Rust
• A degree in computer science or equivalent experience. We care more about what you've shipped than where you studied
  
  

Nice to have

• Experience with async Rust (Tokio or similar)
• Background in messaging protocols, telecom, or real-time systems
• Contributions to open source Rust projects
• Experience with encryption or security-critical systems
  
  

What We Offer

• A young, motivated team with straightforward communication
• Flexible working hours, option to work from home up to two days per week
• Option to work from anywhere for two weeks per year
• Option to take unpaid leave
• You can choose your own hardware (macOS or Linux)
• Public transportation discount or parking space (electric car charging available)
• Free use of fitness room, including a fitness trainer once a month
• Professional massage once a month
• Internal German or English courses
• A great coffee machine ;-)
• Regular company events and aperitifs
• The good feeling of contributing to the effective protection of the privacy of millions of people
  
  

Place of work: Pfäffikon SZ (Greater Zurich Area)

Start date: Immediately or by agreement

Have we sparked your interest?

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