Senior Rust Architect - Distributed Systems & Security

Jobtailor; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Fortanix is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build distributed microservices powering its confidential computing platform. You will own system architecture end-to-end, including service design, APIs, deployment, scaling, and production reliability.

You will drive technical direction, lead API discussions, and ensure secure, auditable services. Proficiency in Rust (or C/C++/Go) and hands-on Kubernetes experience are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• Proven experience designing and building microservices from scratch
• Understanding of larger system architectures
• Experience owning end-to-end services including design, development, deployment, scaling, and operations
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts: scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and data consistency
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience with CI/CD and production deployment pipelines
• Experience in Linux environments, including debugging and performance tuning
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL, distributed storage, and caching
• Experience with confidential computing / Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) would be a plus

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed microservices powering confidential computing platform
• Own system architecture end-to-end including service design, APIs, deployment, scaling and reliability
• Drive technical direction across services and ensure cohesive platform architecture
• Lead system design and API discussions
• Build secure, resilient, auditable services
• Write production-grade Rust, C/C++, or similar systems-level code
• Contribute to critical code reviews
• Partner with engineering, product and infrastructure teams on cross-functional systems
• Mentor and guide engineers
• Contribute to Runtime Encryption technology and confidential computing services

Skills

Microservices Architecture

Rust Programming

Distributed Systems

Kubernetes Experience

Cloud Platforms

CI/CD

Linux Debugging

Performance Tuning

Tools

Rust

C/C++

Go

Job description

Fortanix is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build distributed microservices powering its confidential computing platform. You will own system architecture end-to-end, including service design, APIs, deployment, scaling, and production reliability.

You will drive technical direction, lead API discussions, and ensure secure, auditable services. Proficiency in Rust (or C/C++/Go) and hands-on Kubernetes experience are essential for this role.