Senior Rust Engineer, AI Infra for Production ML

Kraken; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken's AI Infrastructure team designs and builds the production systems powering AI agents at scale. You will craft high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution, enabling reliable operation across millions of users.

Join a team focused on scalable architectures, observability, and cost-conscious delivery of ML workloads in production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and operating high-scale production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Rust and systems-level programming.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, reliability engineering, and performance optimization.
• Experience operating services serving millions of users or high-throughput workloads.
• Familiarity with ML infrastructure, model serving, or MLOps in production environments.
• Experience designing observability, monitoring, and failure recovery systems.
• Strong collaboration skills working across infrastructure and applied engineering teams.
• High ownership mindset in high-stakes production environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the infrastructure layer powering AI agent systems in production.
• Develop high-performance Rust services that handle model inference, orchestration, and execution.
• Architect scalable systems capable of supporting millions of users and high request throughput.
• Build reliable ML infrastructure and MLOps patterns for model deployment, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Define guardrails, observability, and failure handling for agent-driven workflows.
• Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across inference and orchestration layers.
• Partner closely with the Agent Systems team to translate experimental prototypes into hardened production systems.
• Contribute to foundational infrastructure decisions in a high-scale, high-impact environment.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Observability

MLOps

Performance optimization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Kraken's AI Infrastructure team designs and builds the production systems powering AI agents at scale. You will craft high-performance Rust services for model inference, orchestration, and execution, enabling reliable operation across millions of users.

Join a team focused on scalable architectures, observability, and cost-conscious delivery of ML workloads in production environments.