Edge Systems Engineer: Real-Time Rust & Secure Wireless

Metrea; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical plan options

HSA/FSA accounts

Dental and vision coverage

6% employer 401(k) match

Fully paid parental leave for all new

Generous PTO

Life and disability insurance

AD&D coverage

Pet insurance

Subsidized gym membership/plans

Job summary

Metrea invites a software engineer to build the systems behind our edge sensing and secure-communications products. You will write production code, design services and data pipelines, and research new technologies to run reliably on constrained Linux devices in the real world.

You will own problems end-to-end—from rough requirements to shipped, tested, deployable code—collaborating with hardware, firmware, and field teams to deliver integrated solutions for mission-critical operations.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Rust, Python, and Bash.
• Experience building backend, systems, or distributed software.
• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, sockets, packet-level behavior).
• Real fluency in Linux—services, processes, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Ability to work independently and deliver from loosely defined requirements.

Responsibilities

• Write production Rust for real-time data ingestion, processing, and device control.
• Design and build modular services and APIs that span edge devices and backend infrastructure.
• Build data pipelines that feed analysis and automation.
• Integrate your software with network stacks, wireless tooling, and external data sources.
• Implement automation frameworks—rule-based workflows, triggers, and orchestration.
• Deploy and tune software on resource-constrained Linux systems, and debug system-level issues.
• Prototype quickly and iterate as requirements evolve.
• Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and field teams to make the whole system work as one.

Skills

Rust

Python

Bash

Distributed systems

Networking

Linux

Independence

Tools

C#

JavaScript

Job description

Metrea invites a software engineer to build the systems behind our edge sensing and secure-communications products. You will write production code, design services and data pipelines, and research new technologies to run reliably on constrained Linux devices in the real world.

You will own problems end-to-end—from rough requirements to shipped, tested, deployable code—collaborating with hardware, firmware, and field teams to deliver integrated solutions for mission-critical operations.