Senior Rust Systems Architect - High-Throughput Backend

Dlocal LLP; Barcelona; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

dLocal in Barcelona is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and lead Rust-based, high-throughput payment services. You will own concurrency models, async execution, and performance profiling, delivering scalable systems that meet strict SLA requirements.

You will mentor a Rust-focused team, set engineering standards, and collaborate with stakeholders across the business. Fluent English and a strong foundation in distributed systems are essential.

Qualifikationen

• 10+ years in distributed systems.
• 4+ years Rust production experience.
• Hire and grow a Rust-focused engineering group.
• Deep understanding of systems design, memory, and concurrency.
• Write safe, idiomatic Rust with performance focus.
• Experience with AWS.
• Strong event-driven architecture design.
• Excellent English communication.
• Collaborative leader with tech and non-tech stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering/CS or equivalent.

Aufgaben

• Design and lead the architecture of high-throughput, low-latency payment services written in Rust, handling thousands of requests per second with strict SLA requirements.
• Own concurrency models, async execution strategies (Tokio-based systems), memory safety trade-offs, and performance profiling at the systems level.
• Define service boundaries, event-driven contracts, and resilience patterns (idempotency, retries, backpressure, circuit breakers).
• Establish Rust engineering standards across the organization: crate selection policies, dependency management, error handling patterns, testing strategy, and production hardening.
• Lead performance benchmarking, load testing, and capacity planning for Rust-based services.

Kenntnisse

Rust programming

Distributed systems architecture

Concurrency

Memory management

Performance profiling

Tokio-based

English communication

Leadership

Ausbildung

CS/Software Eng degree

Tools

AWS

Tokio

Jobbeschreibung

dLocal in Barcelona is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and lead Rust-based, high-throughput payment services. You will own concurrency models, async execution, and performance profiling, delivering scalable systems that meet strict SLA requirements.

You will mentor a Rust-focused team, set engineering standards, and collaborate with stakeholders across the business. Fluent English and a strong foundation in distributed systems are essential.