Senior Rust Backend Engineer - Performance & Scale

Voto Consulting LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Voto Consulting LLC in Seattle is seeking a senior backend engineer to own end-to-end development of production Rust services, from design through deployment and operations.

You will optimize performance, memory footprint, and latency, while migrating or reworking services to preserve API compatibility and improve efficiency. Deep knowledge of Rust and JVM-based runtimes is required, with experience in cloud stacks and async runtimes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field.
• 5-7+ years building and operating backend services in large-scale production environments with end-to-end ownership.
• Proficient in Rust with ownership/borrowing, lifetimes, traits, error handling, and Tokio or similar async runtimes.
• Experience in performance profiling, memory optimization, and reducing runtime overhead in production services.
• Experience migrating or rewriting services across languages while preserving API/wire-format compatibility.
• Familiarity with Smithy Rust Server SDK, ECS Fargate, CargoBrazil, and CDK with @amzn/pipelines.
• Hands-on work with AI coding agents in development workflows and multi-agent orchestration.
• Strong Java/JVM experience and understanding of GC, heap/metaspace, and JIT.

Skills

Rust

Backend development

Performance optimization

Memory optimization

Java/JVM

System design

Interoperability (FFI)

AWS / Cloud tooling

Asynchronous Rust (Tokio)

Code review

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent technical field

Job description

Voto Consulting LLC in Seattle is seeking a senior backend engineer to own end-to-end development of production Rust services, from design through deployment and operations.

You will optimize performance, memory footprint, and latency, while migrating or reworking services to preserve API compatibility and improve efficiency. Deep knowledge of Rust and JVM-based runtimes is required, with experience in cloud stacks and async runtimes.