Engineering Roles (Senior Network Engineer, Staff Rust Engineer, Backend Engineer Go)

Helodata; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Helodata is seeking a senior network engineer to own the routing and scheduling fabric for a large-scale peer-to-peer network. The role offers paths toward senior, staff Rust, or backend Go positions, with emphasis on scalable, fault-tolerant systems.

You will design routing, QoS, and scheduling algorithms, work in Rust or Go, and review open-source networking projects to guide architecture. Expect Linux kernel-bypass and eBPF-based optimization work.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of hands-on experience with TCP/IP and modern networking protocols.
• Familiarity with the Linux network stack, eBPF, and/or DPDK.
• Ability to read large C/C++ codebases such as Cilium and Envoy.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the P2P routing fabric, including path and peer selection.
• Build and refine node scheduling and QoS algorithms at internet scale.
• Contribute systems-level work in Rust, Go, or low-level networking code.

Skills

TCP/IP

Linux networking

eBPF

DPDK

Rust

Go

C/C++

Tools

Cilium

Envoy

eBPF tooling

Job description

Role overview

This senior engineering opening sits on the team that owns the routing and scheduling systems powering a large-scale peer-to-peer network. The work centers on a fabric that dispatches billions of requests across roughly 80 million residential nodes, with quality-of-service guarantees built in from the ground up. Candidates can be considered for a senior network engineering track, a staff-level Rust role, or a backend position focused on Go services.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the P2P routing fabric, including path selection, peer selection, and traffic shaping
• Build and refine node scheduling and QoS algorithms that operate at internet scale
• Contribute systems-level work in Rust, Go, or low-level networking code depending on the specific role
• Read and reason about large open-source networking projects to inform architectural decisions
• Profile and optimize Linux networking paths, including kernel-bypass and eBPF-based approaches
• Translate network-level requirements into reliable, observable production services

Requirements

• At least five years of hands-on experience with the TCP/IP stack and modern networking protocols
• Working familiarity with the Linux network stack, eBPF, and/or DPDK
• Ability to read and understand large C/C++ codebases such as Cilium and Envoy
• Strong systems engineering background in Rust or Go for backend services
• Comfort designing systems for scale, fault tolerance, and adversarial network conditions