R Senior Backend Engineer RustJobs · Paris posted 4 months ago

Rustify; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RustJobs in Paris is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, high-performance backend services in Rust for a product with real-time demands. You will tackle concurrency, distributed systems, and reliability while owning the services from design to production.

This role is hybrid in central Paris, with collaboration across international teams, focusing on architecture, observability, and end-to-end ownership of critical infrastructure powering a globally used product.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance backend services in Rust
• Work on distributed systems handling real-world scale and low-latency workloads
• Contribute to architecture, concurrency models, and infrastructure design
• Own services end-to-end including observability, debugging, incident response, and reliability
• Collaborate across backend, mobile, and platform engineering teams
• Help evolve shared systems used across multiple platforms and clients

Job description

# Senior Backend EngineerRustJobs · Paris · Senior · HybridView & ApplyWe’re hiring Intermediate and Senior Backend Rust Engineers to join a fast-growing consumer product company with millions of active users and significant long-term backing.The engineering team is highly international, deeply technical, and focused on building scalable real-time systems with strong performance and reliability requirements. This is an opportunity to join early, work alongside experienced systems engineers, and help shape core backend infrastructure powering a globally used product.### The RoleYou’ll work on backend and infrastructure systems written in Rust, solving problems around scalability, concurrency, distributed systems, and reliability in production.The team values engineers who enjoy ownership and want to work close to architecture and systems design rather than narrow feature work.This is a highly collaborative, engineering-driven environment with a strong in-person culture in central Paris.### What You’ll Work On* Design and build high-performance backend services in Rust* Work on distributed systems handling real-world scale and low-latency workloads* Contribute to architecture, concurrency models, and infrastructure design* Own services end-to-end including observability, debugging, incident response, and reliability* Collaborate across backend, mobile, and platform engineering teams* Help evolve shared systems used across multiple platforms and clients### Requirements