Remote Rust Engineer – Edge Devices & Mobile

Jobgether; México; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Global, remote-first team

Open-source tooling access

Industry conferences & collaboration

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer (Edge - Devices & Mobile) based in Mexico to design and build a cross-platform Rust runtime for Windows, Android, Linux, and future macOS support. You will maintain a peer runtime, optimize for mobile constraints, and ensure security and reliability across a globally distributed fleet while collaborating with senior engineers in a remote-first team.

This role offers significant ownership and exposure to cutting-edge networking technologies, JNI/NDK,

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of professional experience with Rust in production software.
• Experience building cross-platform Rust apps on Windows, Android, Linux (macOS future).
• Strong OS internals knowledge, processes, and platform constraints.
• FFI experience with Rust-C/C++ and native OS APIs (JNI/NDK, Win32, POSIX).
• Networking expertise: TCP, TLS, HTTP; analyze traffic and fingerprint differences.
• Experience with async Rust (Tokio, Tonic).
• Reliability, observability, and production operations focus.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain a cross-platform Rust peer runtime for Windows, Android, Linux, with macOS in future.
• Manage lifecycles, background execution, networking, updates, and stability across diverse hardware.
• Lead Android expansion using NDK and JNI for foreground services, battery optimization, and mobile constraints.
• Integrate native networking technologies (Cronet, C++), building Rust libraries.
• Work with FFI, ensuring safe memory management and cross-language interoperability.
• Collect hardware/OS signals (TCP, TLS, HTTP) to improve realism and support detection teams.
• Develop device-level observability and metrics: uptime, bandwidth, availability, drop-offs, success rates.
• Expand capabilities to support more workloads while maintaining security boundaries.
• Participate in on-call rotations, investigate incidents, and improve deployment processes.
• Contribute to docs, architecture, and engineering standards.

Skills

Rust

Cross-platform development

FFI (JNI/NDK, Win32, POSIX)

Networking (TCP/TLS/HTTP)

Asynchronous Rust (Tokio/Tonic)

Observability & production ops

Written communication

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer (Edge - Devices & Mobile) based in Mexico to design and build a cross-platform Rust runtime for Windows, Android, Linux, and future macOS support. You will maintain a peer runtime, optimize for mobile constraints, and ensure security and reliability across a globally distributed fleet while collaborating with senior engineers in a remote-first team.

This role offers significant ownership and exposure to cutting-edge networking technologies, JNI/NDK,