Rust Storage Systems Engineer - Distributed Platform

Barlowe LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided via Just Eat for Biz

Barista bar

Informal dress code

Monthly company events

Job summary

G-Research, headquartered in London, is building a new distributed storage platform in Rust. As part of the Custom I/O team you will design core components, ensure scalability, and work closely with researchers and engineers to meet data access needs.

You will ship high-quality code in Kubernetes environments, integrate Kafka for streaming, and participate in architectural decisions. We value collaboration, rigorous testing and operational excellence, with competitive compensation and a

Qualifications

• Commercial experience developing production systems in Rust.
• Solid grounding in distributed systems and the trade-offs involved in designing them.
• Experience building systems that handle large volumes of data reliably.
• Experience with Kubernetes is beneficial.
• Familiarity with event-driven or streaming technologies such as Kafka is desirable.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to colleagues.
• A commitment to testing, code quality and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Designing and developing core components of a distributed storage platform in Rust
• Building scalable, resilient and performant systems for large data workloads
• Collaborating with researchers and engineers to understand data access requirements
• Contributing to architectural decisions across distributed systems and data management
• Developing and optimising services that run in Kubernetes environments
• Integrating event-driven and streaming technologies, including Kafka, into the wider platform
• Promoting engineering best practice, code quality and thorough testing

Skills

Rust production

Distributed systems

Large data handling

Kubernetes

Kafka

Collaborative communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

G-Research, headquartered in London, is building a new distributed storage platform in Rust. As part of the Custom I/O team you will design core components, ensure scalability, and work closely with researchers and engineers to meet data access needs.

You will ship high-quality code in Kubernetes environments, integrate Kafka for streaming, and participate in architectural decisions. We value collaboration, rigorous testing and operational excellence, with competitive compensation and a