Senior AI Infra Engineer: Rust, MLOps, High-Scale

Ink Foundation; España; On-site; EUR 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a senior Rust systems engineer to design and operate the AI infrastructure powering production agent systems. You will build high-performance services for model inference, orchestration, and execution while ensuring reliability for millions of users and high-throughput workloads.

You will collaborate across infrastructure teams to implement observability, guardrails, and cost optimization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Rust and systems-level programming.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and performance optimization.
• Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads.
• Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps in production environments.
• Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems.
• High ownership mindset in high-stakes production environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the infrastructure layer powering AI agent systems in production.
• Develop high-performance Rust services that handle model inference, orchestration, and execution.
• Architect scalable systems capable of supporting millions of users and high request throughput.
• Build reliable ML infrastructure and MLOps patterns for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Define guardrails, observability, and failure handling for agent-driven workflows.
• Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across inference and orchestration layers.
• Partner closely with the Agent Systems team to translate experimental prototypes into hardened production systems.
• Contribute to foundational infrastructure decisions in a high-scale, high-impact environment.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Performance optimization

ML infrastructure

Observability

Ownership mindset

Tools

Container orchestration

Job description

Kraken is seeking a senior Rust systems engineer to design and operate the AI infrastructure powering production agent systems. You will build high-performance services for model inference, orchestration, and execution while ensuring reliability for millions of users and high-throughput workloads.

You will collaborate across infrastructure teams to implement observability, guardrails, and cost optimization.