Senior Core Systems Engineer - Remote, Rust & Security

Startup Talents; United States; Teletrabalho; USD 180 000 - 260 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Remote first

Stock options

Healthcare

Retirement plan

Conference access

Home office equipment

Resumo da oferta

Startup Talents is seeking a Senior Core Systems Engineer for a remote role, open to Paris, EU, or US-based candidates. The position focuses on building secure, low-level infrastructure including MPC signers, HSMs, TEEs, and Rust-based services that integrate with cloud, hardware, and blockchain environments.

You will design protocols, optimize databases, and harden workflows powering financial applications at scale, collaborating with cryptography, infra, and product teams to productionize

Qualificações

• 8+ years of systems engineering experience with focus on security, infra, or backend.
• Strong Rust expertise and low-level systems programming skills.
• Experience building distributed systems, consensus mechanisms, or networks.
• Hands-on experience with HSMs, MPC, TEEs, and cryptographic key management.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases in high-availability environments.
• Familiarity with secure networking, applied cryptography, and defense-in-depth models.
• Skilled in observability, debugging, and optimizing performance at scale.
• Clear communicator, able to translate complex systems into practical solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Design, implement, and operate MPC signers, HSMs, and TEEs (e.g. AWS Nitro).
• Build low-level services and middleware in Rust and other systems languages.
• Architect distributed databases and stateful services for performance and reliability.
• Develop secure APIs and networking between core systems and high-level services.
• Optimize resource usage, latency, and throughput across critical workflows.
• Collaborate with cryptography, infra, and product to bring new protocols into production.
• Document core systems, share knowledge, and support client and partner discussions.

Conhecimentos

Rust

Distributed systems

HSMs / MPC / TEEs

Security

Observability

Low-level programming

SQL/NoSQL

Communication

Ferramentas

AWS Nitro

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Startup Talents is seeking a Senior Core Systems Engineer for a remote role, open to Paris, EU, or US-based candidates. The position focuses on building secure, low-level infrastructure including MPC signers, HSMs, TEEs, and Rust-based services that integrate with cloud, hardware, and blockchain environments.

You will design protocols, optimize databases, and harden workflows powering financial applications at scale, collaborating with cryptography, infra, and product teams to productionize