Senior Peer-to-Peer Systems Engineer (Rust)

ProducePay; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Health benefits

401k match

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Education support

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Free parking

Job summary

webAI in Austin, TX is seeking Senior and Staff Engineers to advance secure, distributed, and resilient AI infrastructure. You’ll work on decentralized networking concepts with Rust, building synchronization systems across edge devices and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes performance, data privacy, and security-first design, collaborating with MLOps, Infra, and Security teams to deploy AI components in restricted or air-gapped environments. Remote-friendly options may vary by project.

Qualifications

• 5-10+ years of experience in backend systems languages like C++, C, Go, Rust.
• Experience with peer to peer or decentralized networking frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement advanced synchronization and networking systems for reliable AI across edge devices to cloud, prioritizing performance, reliability, and data privacy.
• Architect robust data synchronization frameworks using content addressed storage, Merkle trees, CRDTs.
• Lead performance tuning, debugging, and optimization of distributed software under resource constrained and intermittent connectivity conditions.
• Ensure security-first design through threat modeling, secure key management, and integration of cryptographic primitives and protocols.
• Collaborate with MLOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams to deploy and integrate AI components in restricted or air gapped systems.
• Contribute to cross-functional architectural design discussions and documentation for internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain rigorous testing, observability, and validation practices to ensure system reliability and compliance readiness.
• Other areas touched on may include DHTs, content identifiers, gossip protocols, DAGs, overlay networks, and NAT traversal.
• Please note: Development will be done in Rust and you’ll be able to get up to speed on Rust while working with these systems if you haven’t worked in it.

Skills

Backend languages

P2P networking

Job description

webAI in Austin, TX is seeking Senior and Staff Engineers to advance secure, distributed, and resilient AI infrastructure. You’ll work on decentralized networking concepts with Rust, building synchronization systems across edge devices and cloud environments.

The role emphasizes performance, data privacy, and security-first design, collaborating with MLOps, Infra, and Security teams to deploy AI components in restricted or air-gapped environments. Remote-friendly options may vary by project.