Remote-First Edge Networking & Fleet Engineer (Rust)

Jobgether; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote‑first flexibility

Flexible working hours

International collaboration

Global team events

Modern technology stack

Technical impact

Professional growth

Job summary

Jobgether partners with a leading UK technology company to hire a Software Engineer focused on edge networking and fleet infrastructure. You will build scalable systems powering a large residential device network and work across control planes, data planes, and fleet management.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, reliability, performance, and remote‑first collaboration. You will own scheduling, proxy services, and device management across Windows, Android, and Linux, with opportunities to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Rust production experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems at scale (schedulers, control planes, or stateful services).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency, backpressure, idempotency).
• Deep networking knowledge (TCP, TLS, HTTP, handshakes, packet behavior).
• Practical experience with gRPC and long‑lived connections across NAT/unreliable networks.
• Experience building or operating proxy infrastructure and residential/ISP proxies.
• Cross‑platform Rust development for Windows, Linux, and Android (FFI boundaries where needed).
• Strong written communication in a globally distributed, remote‑first team.

Responsibilities

• Scale the data plane to handle tens of millions of requests per day.
• Design and build the Fleet Manager control plane with adapters, inventory, health, and rollout control.
• Develop provider integrations for onboarding new device sources via standardized workflows.
• Own and improve the CONNECT proxy gateway and edge session management.
• Engineer secure networking between control services and residential peers (mTLS, gRPC, long polling).
• Address NAT, carrier NAT, bandwidth accounting, and connection reliability concerns.
• Define and maintain service level objectives for availability and latency.
• Build observability and operational metrics for peer availability and provider performance.
• Implement safe blue/green deployments and software rollouts.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and lead incident post‑mortems.
• Produce technical design documents for scheduling, fleet management, and failover.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Networking

gRPC

Cross‑platform Rust

Tools

Cronet

Kubernetes

Terraform

Protobufs

Job description

Jobgether partners with a leading UK technology company to hire a Software Engineer focused on edge networking and fleet infrastructure. You will build scalable systems powering a large residential device network and work across control planes, data planes, and fleet management.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, reliability, performance, and remote‑first collaboration. You will own scheduling, proxy services, and device management across Windows, Android, and Linux, with opportunities to