Low-Level Rust Engineer for High-Performance Systems

MWDN; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

29 days PTO + holidays

Paid English classes

Job summary

MWDN is seeking a senior Rust systems programmer to own end-to-end development of high-performance infrastructure components. You will tackle complex challenges across memory, concurrency, and architecture while delivering across the full stack.

Join a distributed team working on next-generation data infrastructure, with autonomy, flexible hours, and strong emphasis on professional development, English fluency, and long‑term cooperation with international clients.

Qualifications

• Expertise in Rust
• Strong understanding of computer architecture, OS, and networking fundamentals
• Experience in low-level system architecture
• Experience with multi-threading and memory layout optimization or custom allocators
• Proven ability to take ownership of complex challenges from inception to delivery
• Ability to dive into unfamiliar codebases and optimize them quickly
• Comfortable working with minimal abstraction layers in high-performance environments
• English level Fluent (C1)

Responsibilities

• Accelerating distributed systems like Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Ray
• Building native Rust-based execution engines
• Deep performance tuning (e.g., SIMD, cache locality, zero-copy IO)

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Concurrency

Memory optimization

Distributed systems

English (C1)

Job description

MWDN is seeking a senior Rust systems programmer to own end-to-end development of high-performance infrastructure components. You will tackle complex challenges across memory, concurrency, and architecture while delivering across the full stack.

Join a distributed team working on next-generation data infrastructure, with autonomy, flexible hours, and strong emphasis on professional development, English fluency, and long‑term cooperation with international clients.