Rust Engineer

GCS Recruitment; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GCS Recruitment is seeking a Senior Rust Engineer to lead development in open-source infrastructure and advanced version-control tooling. You will work on high-impact systems spanning source control, cloud-backed repositories, and AI-assisted workflows.

You'll collaborate with open-source communities, contribute to gitoxide, and design scalable, high-performance backends for enterprise-size projects. A strong Rust background and passion for distributed systems are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Rust.
• Deep understanding of Git and version control concepts.
• Experience building developer tools, SDKs, CLIs, or systems software.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture and distributed systems.
• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Track record of delivering high-quality production software.

Responsibilities

• Extend and enhance the version control ecosystem.
• Contribute to gitoxide and Git compatibility initiatives.
• Build cloud-native repository backends designed for enterprise-scale development.
• Develop high-performance storage, caching, and virtual filesystem solutions.
• Improve support for large repositories and distributed workflows.
• Design extensibility frameworks, APIs, and plugin architectures.
• Enhance developer tooling for AI-assisted and automated software engineering workflows.
• Collaborate directly with open-source maintainers and upstream communities.

Skills

Rust

Git

Open-source

Distributed systems

Developer tools

Software architecture

Production software

Tools

Git internals

gitoxide

Mercurial

JGit

gRPC

Job description

Senior Rust Engineer | Version Control Systems | Open Source Infrastructure

We are looking for an experienced Rust Engineer to join a high-impact engineering initiative focused on the future of developer tooling, large-scale version control systems, and AI-assisted software development.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to open-source technologies that are enabling next-generation development workflows across large repositories, distributed teams, and automated agent-based environments.

You will work on challenging systems-level engineering problems spanning source control, distributed systems, cloud-backed repositories, virtual file systems, performance optimisation, and developer experience.

What You'll Be Working On

• Extending and enhancing the version control ecosystem
• Contributing to gitoxide and Git compatibility initiatives
• Building cloud-native repository backends designed for enterprise-scale development
• Developing high-performance storage, caching, and virtual filesystem solutions
• Improving support for large repositories and distributed workflows
• Designing extensibility frameworks, APIs, and plugin architectures
• Enhancing developer tooling for AI-assisted and automated software engineering workflows
• Collaborating directly with open-source maintainers and upstream communities

What We're Looking For

Essential

• Strong commercial experience with Rust
• Deep understanding of Git and modern version control concepts
• Experience building developer tools, infrastructure platforms, SDKs, CLIs, or systems software
• Strong knowledge of software architecture and distributed systems
• Experience contributing to open-source projects
• Track record of delivering high-quality production software

Highly Desirable

• Experience with Git internals, source control systems, or repository storage technologies
• Contributions to projects such as Git, gitoxide, JGit, Mercurial, or similar tooling
• Knowledge of packfiles, commit graphs, refs, reftables, partial clone, or repository performance optimisation
• Experience with storage engines, filesystems, caching layers, or large-scale infrastructure
• Familiarity with gRPC, distributed services, authentication systems, and cloud platforms
• Open-source maintainer experience or a strong public GitHub profile

We are especially interested in engineers who actively contribute to open-source communities and enjoy working on technically demanding problems that have a broad impact across the software engineering ecosystem.

Why Join?

• Work on cutting-edge developer infrastructure
• Contribute directly to widely-used open-source projects
• Help shape the future of AI-enabled software development
• Solve complex technical challenges at the intersection of version control, cloud infrastructure, and developer productivity
• Collaborate with recognised experts in the open-source ecosystem

If you have a passion for Rust, developer tooling, distributed systems, and open-source software, we'd love to hear from you

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.