Rust Platform Engineer: Bare-Metal, Low-Latency Infra

Temporal; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Temporal in New York City preferred or US remote is hiring a platform engineer to own the infrastructure that every service relies on, including logging, metrics, secrets, and configuration. The role focuses on a bare-metal fleet across regions, with a lean Kubernetes footprint, where the hot path operates at microsecond budgets and the machine may be rebooted to produce a block.

You will own internal Rust libraries, deploy tooling, and platform APIs, while ensuring safe, auditable operations

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Rust and API design for crates read by many services.
• Experience building internal libraries or platform APIs adopted by engineers.
• Deep Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Production bare-metal ops across regions/providers with IaC and config mgmt.
• Secrets management, PKI, and certificate lifecycles in production.
• Bonus for integrating enforcement in critical paths like proxies or signing.
• Familiarity with Solana or ability to learn protocol fluently.

Responsibilities

• Own internal Rust libraries used by services: logging, metrics, tracing, secrets, credentials, and configuration.
• Ship defaults and ergonomic APIs to encourage adoption while keeping hot-path latency low.
• Build policy enforcement around signing and key access with auditable behavior.
• Own platform end-to-end: provisioning, configuration, secrets, delivery, observability, on-call.
• Ensure reproducible host configuration across multi-region bare-metal fleets (CPU pinning, hugepages, IRQ affinity, etc.).
• Develop deploy tooling to update production without impacting transactions or slots.
• Operate Solana validators and supporting infrastructure: snapshots, storage, client upgrades, network config.
• Maintain and extend the metrics, logging, and alerting stack (retention, cardinality, cost).
• Investigate incidents, diagnose root causes, and ship robust fixes.

Skills

Rust

Crate API design

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Infrastructure as code

Secrets management

PKI

Production operations

Solana familiarity

Ownership

Tools

Rust toolchain

Linux tooling

Job description

Temporal in New York City preferred or US remote is hiring a platform engineer to own the infrastructure that every service relies on, including logging, metrics, secrets, and configuration. The role focuses on a bare-metal fleet across regions, with a lean Kubernetes footprint, where the hot path operates at microsecond budgets and the machine may be rebooted to produce a block.

You will own internal Rust libraries, deploy tooling, and platform APIs, while ensuring safe, auditable operations