Senior Rust Developer

EPAM Systems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Senior Rust Developer to build a Rust SDK that enables client apps to securely communicate with backend services via gRPC. You will design stable, developer-friendly interfaces for mobile apps, game engines, and other client environments.

You will collaborate with backend, mobile, web, game, and product teams to define contracts, improve performance, security, and testing, and contribute to documentation and samples to improve developer experience.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on Rust experience.
• Production-grade gRPC experience.
• Experience designing reusable libraries and SDKs.
• Strong written and spoken English in distributed teams.
• Nice to have familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a Rust-based SDK for communication with backend services via gRPC.
• Design clear, stable, and well-documented public interfaces for client developers.
• Implement secure, reliable networking, error handling, retries, and lifecycle management.
• Support SDK integration into mobile apps and game engines.
• Collaborate with backend, mobile, web, game, and product teams to define contracts.
• Contribute to protocol design, versioning, compatibility, testing, and release processes.
• Improve developer experience through docs, samples, tests, and guidance.
• Identify and address performance, reliability, observability, and security concerns.

Skills

Rust

gRPC

Asynchronous programming

Concurrency

Networking

Secure communication

Documentation

Testing

English communication

Distributed teamwork

Tools

Protocol Buffers

CI/CD pipelines

AI-assisted development tools

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Rust Developer to develop and maintain a software development kit that enables client applications to securely communicate with backend platform services through gRPC. The role focuses on designing stable, developer-friendly interfaces and reliable communication layers for integration into mobile applications, game engines, and other client environments. You will contribute to a modern educational technology ecosystem that combines structured learning, educational games, and short-form educational media.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a Rust-based software development kit for communication with backend services through gRPC
• Design clear, stable, and well-documented public interfaces for client application developers
• Implement reliable, secure, and efficient networking, authentication, error handling, retries, and request lifecycle management
• Support integration of the software development kit into mobile applications and game engines
• Collaborate with backend, mobile, web, game, and product teams to define integration requirements and technical contracts
• Contribute to protocol design, versioning strategies, compatibility, testing, and release processes
• Improve developer experience through documentation, examples, automated tests, and integration guidance
• Identify and address performance, reliability, observability, and security concerns in client-to-service communication
• Use artificial intelligence-assisted development tools responsibly to improve delivery speed, code quality, documentation, and testing

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on project or production experience with Rust
• Demonstrated production experience building or integrating gRPC-based services or clients
• Experience designing and maintaining reusable libraries, client libraries, or software development kits
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming, concurrency, networking, error handling, and secure communication patterns
• Experience working with protocol definitions, service contracts, serialization, compatibility, and versioning
• Ability to write maintainable, well-tested, production-quality code
• Familiarity with artificial intelligence-assisted development workflows and practical use of related tools
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed team environment
• English proficiency at an Upper-Intermediate level (B2) or higher
• Nice to have Experience supporting Rust applications across mobile, game engine, or cross-platform environments
• Nice to have Experience with authentication, authorization, token management, and secure client-side session handling
• Nice to have Experience with educational technology, gaming, media platforms, or consumer-facing applications
• Nice to have Familiarity with family accounts, child safety, permissions, privacy-sensitive data, or parent-facing product features
• Nice to have Experience improving developer experience through documentation, code samples, developer tooling, or automated integration testing