Lead Rust Engineer — Remote, Equity, High-Impact

Roder AI; Helsinki; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option program

Dedicated learning time

Remote-first work environment

Job summary

Roder AI in Helsinki (remote-first) is seeking a lead-level Rust engineer to own the backend powering our AI security gateway. You'll shape the Rust architecture, set coding standards, and mentor new engineers. If you want the lead title or to be a deep senior IC, this role fits.

You'll work from Finland or Sweden with remote-first culture; occasional in-person meetups; equity after probation; a strong emphasis on performance and security in production systems.

Qualifications

• Strong production Rust experience.
• Proven senior-level engineering experience overall.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals: proxies, gateways, API security, protocols.
• Comfort with Kubernetes and containerized deployment.
• EU residency and eligibility to work in Finland or Sweden.

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving our Rust backend: a cargo workspace powering a high-throughput, low-latency AI security gateway in production.
• Performance-critical proxy work: async Rust, Layer 7 routing, streaming, connection handling, multi-provider AI routing, rate limiting.
• Security engineering in the hot path: prompt injection detection, PII scanning, policy enforcement, output filtering, all under strict latency budgets.
• Protocol work: MCP, OAuth/OIDC, token binding, agent identity.
• Setting engineering standards: code review culture, API design, testing strategy, how we structure the workspace as the team grows.
• Driving our agentic development practices. We build with AI agents, we automate aggressively, and we expect you to push this forward, not tolerate it.

Skills

Rust

Senior engineering

Networking fundamentals

Kubernetes

Job description

Roder AI in Helsinki (remote-first) is seeking a lead-level Rust engineer to own the backend powering our AI security gateway. You'll shape the Rust architecture, set coding standards, and mentor new engineers. If you want the lead title or to be a deep senior IC, this role fits.

You'll work from Finland or Sweden with remote-first culture; occasional in-person meetups; equity after probation; a strong emphasis on performance and security in production systems.