Rust Backend Engineer: Ledger & Distributed Systems

CloudWalk, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

CloudWalk, Inc. is seeking a senior infrastructure specialist to help build and operate Stratus, an EVM-compatible centralized ledger released as open source. You will work on performance, reliability, and security of a system that handles production financial state and APIs for internal teams.

You will collaborate with a multinational team, leverage cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, and contribute to data-intensive applications using Rust and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience operating critical infrastructure on cloud providers like GCP or AWS using Terraform.
• Experience developing databases or data-intensive applications.
• Experience building parallel and distributed systems.
• Proficient in Rust.
• Familiarity with the EVM, Solidity, or blockchain internals is a plus.
• Knowledge of the Brazilian payments ecosystem is a plus.
• Communicates clearly and effectively.
• Advanced English communication skills, primarily for internal communication with our diverse, multinational team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Stratus, an EVM-compatible centralized ledger released as open source
• Build and operate the indexers that ingest and expose ledger state
• Support other teams integrating with the ledger
• Improve performance, reliability, and correctness of a system that holds production financial state
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Rust programming

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Communication

English proficiency

Tools

Terraform

Job description

CloudWalk, Inc. is seeking a senior infrastructure specialist to help build and operate Stratus, an EVM-compatible centralized ledger released as open source. You will work on performance, reliability, and security of a system that handles production financial state and APIs for internal teams.

You will collaborate with a multinational team, leverage cloud infrastructure on GCP/AWS, and contribute to data-intensive applications using Rust and distributed systems.