Remote Rust Engineer — Edge & Mobile Systems

Jobgether; Ireland; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

International team

Open-source tooling access

Conference attendance

Technical ownership

Cutting-edge technologies

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer (Edge – Devices & Mobile) in Ireland to build a cross‑platform Rust runtime for Windows, Android, and Linux with future macOS support. You will work on a distributed infrastructure, focusing on performance, security, and reliability across diverse hardware.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and cross‑functional teams, owning critical infrastructure and contributing to large-scale data collection systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Rust experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain a cross-platform Rust peer runtime for Windows, Android, and Linux with macOS future.
• Manage process lifecycles, background execution, networking, updates and stability across diverse hardware.
• Lead platform expansion to Android devices using NDK and JNI, addressing foreground services and battery optimization.
• Integrate native networking technologies and browserless HTTP clients into Rust libraries.
• Work with native OS APIs and FFI, ensuring safe memory management and cross-language interoperability.
• Collect and analyze hardware and OS signals (TCP, TLS, HTTP) to improve network realism.
• Develop device-level observability and performance metrics (uptime, bandwidth, availability).
• Expand capabilities to support additional workloads while maintaining security boundaries.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incidents, and post-mortems; improve deployment processes.
• Contribute to documentation, architecture proposals, and engineering standards.

Skills

Rust

Cross-platform

FFI

JNI/NDK

Networking

Tokio/Tonic

Tools

Cronet (Chromium)

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

gRPC

Protobuf

Kotlin

Java

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer (Edge – Devices & Mobile) in Ireland to build a cross‑platform Rust runtime for Windows, Android, and Linux with future macOS support. You will work on a distributed infrastructure, focusing on performance, security, and reliability across diverse hardware.

You will collaborate with senior engineers and cross‑functional teams, owning critical infrastructure and contributing to large-scale data collection systems.