Senior Rust Cloud Platform Engineer — Secure Fleet Backend

LCS Defense; Jessup (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LCS Defense is seeking a Senior Rust Cloud Platform Engineer to design and develop secure, scalable backend services for a cloud-based platform managing high-assurance device fleets. The role emphasizes provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and policy enforcement across distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of software development experience, strong Rust expertise, and a background in secure cloud architectures, CI/CD, and networking fundamentals.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• 7+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience with Rust application development.
• Experience building backend services and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, routing, subnetting).
• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud-based architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop backend services and APIs in Rust supporting fleet lifecycle operations (provisioning, configuration, monitoring, firmware updates, policy enforcement).
• Architect and implement secure authentication and authorization frameworks for device-to-cloud communication.
• Build and scale distributed service components for telemetry ingestion, health monitoring, configuration management, and alerting.
• Develop highly available and scalable systems for managing large fleets of devices in secure environments.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across software, hardware, and systems engineering.

Skills

Rust

Backend

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Networking

Tools

AWS CDK

Job description

LCS Defense is seeking a Senior Rust Cloud Platform Engineer to design and develop secure, scalable backend services for a cloud-based platform managing high-assurance device fleets. The role emphasizes provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and policy enforcement across distributed systems.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of software development experience, strong Rust expertise, and a background in secure cloud architectures, CI/CD, and networking fundamentals.