Remote Senior Rust Engineer - Data Plane & Networking

Buoyant; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

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Job summary

Buoyant is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance networking and data-plane software for Linkerd and Kinference. The role focuses on production Rust experience, with strong precedence for C/C++ networking and systems programming.

You will influence architecture and own significant engineering work in a remote setup. Fully remote across the United States, Canada, or South America, with overlap with Pacific Time.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-performance networking and systems programming.
• Production Rust experience strongly preferred; transition to Rust welcome for strong C/C++ background.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, concurrency and reliability is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-grade software handling live network traffic and service-to-service communication.
• Design and implement high-performance networking components and data-plane functionality.
• Contribute to open-source infrastructure and own substantial portions of engineering work.

Skills

Rust

C/C++ networking

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Performance optimization

Networking

Tools

Git

Job description

Buoyant is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build high-performance networking and data-plane software for Linkerd and Kinference. The role focuses on production Rust experience, with strong precedence for C/C++ networking and systems programming.

You will influence architecture and own significant engineering work in a remote setup. Fully remote across the United States, Canada, or South America, with overlap with Pacific Time.