Rust Engineer

IntelliPro; Hong Kong; Hybrid; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Hybrid work arrangement

Learning budget

Job summary

IntelliPro in Hong Kong is seeking a skilled Rust Engineer to build high-performance backend services and infrastructure components for our tech platform. You will design, implement and test core services, and collaborate with product, infra and security teams to shape engineering standards.

Requirements include solid Rust production experience, async Rust and concurrency, Linux, Docker, and CI/CD. The role offers a flexible hybrid schedule and a learning budget for conferences and courses.

Qualifications

• Solid hands-on production experience writing Rust; comfortable with ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async Rust and concurrency primitives.
• Strong understanding of computer fundamentals: memory model, TCP/IP, multi-threading, data structures & algorithms.
• Experience building backend services or system software; familiarity with at least one async runtime (tokio preferred).
• Good knowledge of CI/CD, Git, containerization (Docker) and Linux environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, network components, SDKs or distributed systems using Rust.
• Optimize system performance, memory footprint, concurrency and throughput; troubleshoot latency and stability issues.
• Write clean, well-tested, idiomatic Rust code, including unit tests, integration tests and benchmark suites.
• Review code from peers, promote best practices, and improve internal coding guidelines.
• Integrate with databases, message queues, gRPC/REST APIs and observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, estimate work and deliver features on schedule.
• Contribute to technical design documents, architecture decisions and risk assessment.
• Keep up with Rust ecosystem updates, evaluate crates and avoid unsafe pitfalls.

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

Concurrency

CI/CD

Linux

Git

Testing

Tools

Docker

Job description

We are looking for a skilled Rust Engineer to build high-performance, reliable, low-latency backend and infrastructure components for our tech platform. You will design, implement, test and maintain core services, work closely with product, infrastructure and security teams, and help shape engineering standards for our system.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, network components, SDKs or distributed systems using Rust
• Optimize system performance, memory footprint, concurrency and throughput; troubleshoot latency and stability issues
• Write clean, well-tested, idiomatic Rust code, including unit tests, integration tests and benchmark suites
• Review code from peers, promote best practices, and improve internal coding guidelines
• Integrate with databases, message queues, gRPC/REST APIs and observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, estimate work and deliver features on schedule
• Contribute to technical design documents, architecture decisions and risk assessment
• Keep up with Rust ecosystem updates, evaluate crates and avoid unsafe pitfalls

Requirements

• Solid hands‑on production experience writing Rust; comfortable with ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async Rust and concurrency primitives
• Strong understanding of computer fundamentals: memory model, TCP/IP, multi‑threading, data structures & algorithms
• Experience building backend services or system software; familiarity with at least one async runtime (tokio preferred)
• Good knowledge of CI/CD, Git, containerization (Docker) and Linux environment
• Ability to write high‑quality tests, debug production issues and profile performance bottlenecks
• Proficient in English for technical communication; clear verbal and written communication

Nice‑to‑Have

• Experience with distributed systems, consensus protocols, caching or high‑throughput data pipelines
• Exposure to gRPC, Protobuf, SQL / NoSQL databases
• Familiarity with observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience with unsafe Rust and FFI
• Prior open‑source Rust contributions

What We Offer

• Competitive salary + performance bonus
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement
• Learning budget for conferences, courses and books