Senior Rust Backend Engineer – Data Security Platform

JobCubby; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 103,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Volunteer Time Off

Job summary

Fortanix is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to join our data-centric security platform. You’ll own backend features from requirements through deployment, build Rust services, and integrate with cloud and enterprise systems to provide cryptographic insights.

Strong candidates have 8+ years in backend engineering, hands-on Rust, and experience with microservices, REST APIs, and scalable architectures. Join a global team redefining data security.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend development.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in Rust, C++, or Go. Production Rust experience is preferred.
• Designing and building backend services and microservices used in production.
• Designing and implementing REST APIs, including API contracts, integrations, and service-to-service communication.
• Designing database schemas and data models and working with application data-access layers.
• Building or integrating with third-party APIs, SDKs, cloud services, or enterprise platforms.
• Taking ambiguous technical requirements, researching unfamiliar technologies, and turning findings into a practical technical design and implementation plan.
• Diagnosing and solving performance and scalability problems in production backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Own backend features from the initial product requirement through design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Integrate with cloud and enterprise platforms, researching unfamiliar APIs, SDKs, services, and technologies when necessary.
• Translate research into a technical design, identify architectural changes, break the work into executable pieces, and implement the solution.
• Design and build backend services in Rust, including REST APIs, data models, database schemas, and service-to-service integrations.
• Own technical design for new capabilities, considering architecture, scalability, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
• Scale a growing product, addressing performance bottlenecks and architectural limitations as adoption increases.
• Take features through production, including testing, CI/CD, deployment, validation, and production readiness.
• Debug complex production issues across application, integration, database, and infrastructure layers.

Skills

Backend development

Rust

C++

Go

REST APIs

Microservices

Performance optimization

CI/CD

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Fortanix is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Backend to join our data-centric security platform. You’ll own backend features from requirements through deployment, build Rust services, and integrate with cloud and enterprise systems to provide cryptographic insights.

Strong candidates have 8+ years in backend engineering, hands-on Rust, and experience with microservices, REST APIs, and scalable architectures. Join a global team redefining data security.