Rust Developer

The C++ Alliance, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The C++ Alliance, Inc. is seeking a strong, well-rounded Rust Developer to design, build, and maintain the tooling, services, and infrastructure behind our engineering work.

This is a role for a systems-minded generalist: someone who is comfortable owning a problem from design through deployment and who takes pride in shipping clean, reliable software. You'll work closely with our engineering team on real-world, high-impact infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production systems with significant Rust experience.
• Strong grasp of Rust ownership model, concurrency primitives, and async ecosystem (Tokio or async-std).
• Experience building and maintaining CLI tools, services, or backend systems in Rust.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control (Git), CI/CD, and code review.
• Strong written communication; remote, distributed team work.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Rust-based tools, services, and CLI applications.
• Own features end to end from design through testing and deployment.
• Write clean, well-tested, production-grade Rust and documentation.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and technical planning.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and correctness issues in production systems.
• Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling.
• Document technical decisions clearly for internal and public audiences.

Skills

Rust experience

Ownership model

Concurrency

Async Rust

CLI tooling

Git & CI/CD

Tools

Git

Docker

AWS

Job description

The C++ Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and growing the C++ ecosystem. We fund infrastructure, tooling, documentation, and community initiatives that keep the ecosystem healthy, modern, and accessible to developers everywhere.

About the Role

The C++ Alliance is seeking a strong, well-rounded Rust Developer to design, build, and maintain the tooling, services, and infrastructure behind our engineering work. This is a role for a systems-minded generalist: someone who is comfortable owning a problem from design through deployment and who takes pride in shipping clean, reliable software. You'll work closely with our engineering team on real-world, high-impact infrastructure. We care less about which corners of the stack you’ve touched before and more about depth of craft, sound judgment, and the ability to work well in a distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Rust-based tools, services, and CLI applications
• Own features end to end, from design and implementation through testing and deployment
• Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, production-grade Rust
• Participate in code review, architecture discussions, and technical planning
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and correctness issues in production systems
• Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Document technical decisions clearly for both internal and public audiences

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production systems, with significant Rust experience (professional or substantial open-source)
• Strong grasp of Rust's ownership model, concurrency primitives, and async ecosystem (Tokio or async-std)
• Experience building and maintaining CLI tools, services, or backend systems in Rust
• Solid software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control (Git), CI/CD, and code review
• Strong written communication, since much of our work is asynchronous and clear documentation and PR descriptions matter
• Self-directed and comfortable in a remote, distributed team

Preferred Skills

• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, ideally in Rust or developer tooling
• Experience with WebAssembly, FFI, or cross-language tooling
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS, Docker, etc.)
• Prior experience with a nonprofit, foundation, or open-source-focused organization

Pay range and compensation package

Salary is competitive and commensurate with experience, generally targeting a range of $140,000–$160,000 USD base depending on seniority and specialization. Exact compensation will be discussed during the interview process.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The C++ Alliance, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and encourage those passionate about open source and systems programming to apply.