Senior Rust Developer - Async & Systems

Remotebase; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote with office optional

Flexible timings

Market competitive compensation

Job summary

Remotebase places senior engineers with fast-growing product companies worldwide. We’re building a pool of experienced Rust Developers for part-time engagements.

You’ll build and maintain high-performance backend systems and tooling, including APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure components. This role suits engineers who write production Rust and want flexible, meaningful work alongside other commitments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of production Rust experience
• Strong understanding of ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits and generics
• Experience with async Rust (Tokio, futures, Send/Sync)
• Experience with backend services in production
• Knowledge of SQL or NoSQL databases via Rust crates
• Familiarity with Docker, Linux and a cloud provider

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain production-grade services and libraries in Rust
• Write safe, idiomatic, well-tested code with attention to performance
• Build async services with Tokio and frameworks (Axum, Actix-web, Tonic)
• Profile and optimize hot paths and fix concurrency issues
• Integrate with databases, queues and cloud infrastructure
• Review code and guide less-experienced engineers
• Work asynchronously with distributed teams and communicate clearly

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

CI/CD

English communication

Distributed teams

Tools

sqlx

Diesel

SeaORM

Docker

Linux

Job description

Remotebase places senior engineers with fast-growing product companies around the world. We’re building a pool of experienced Rust Developers for Part-time Engagements with our clients. You’ll build and maintain high-performance, reliable backend and systems software. Projects range from backend services and APIs to infrastructure tooling, data pipelines and performance-critical components.

This role suits engineers who already write production Rust and want flexible, meaningful work alongside their other commitments.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and maintain production-grade services and libraries in Rust
• Write safe, idiomatic and well-tested code, with careful attention to performance and memory use
• Build async services with Tokio and frameworks such as Axum, Actix-web or Tonic (gRPC)
• Profile and optimize hot paths, and find and fix concurrency, latency and memory issues
• Integrate with databases, message queues and cloud infrastructure
• Review code, guide less-experienced engineers and contribute to technical design decisions
• Work asynchronously with distributed teams, with clear written communication

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years of production Rust
• A deep understanding of ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits and generics
• Strong hands-on experience with async Rust (Tokio, futures, Send/Sync bounds)
• Experience building and running backend services or systems software in production
• Solid grasp of concurrency, memory management and performance profiling
• Comfortable with testing in Rust (unit, integration, property-based) and with CI/CD
• Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases (Postgres, Redis and so on) through crates such as sqlx, Diesel or SeaORM
• Familiarity with Docker, Linux and at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure)
• Strong written and spoken English
• Reliable availability of 20 hours/week, with 4 hours of overlap with US timezone.

Nice to Have

• Unsafe Rust, FFI (C/C++ or Python via PyO3) or WebAssembly
• Embedded, networking, blockchain or distributed-systems experience
• Open-source contributions to the Rust ecosystem
• Experience with observability tools (tracing, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
• Background in C++ or Go

Benefits

In addition to a market competitive compensation, we have a reward philosophy that expand beyond this.

• Fully remote with office optional. You decide when you would like to work from home and when from the office.
• Flexible timings. You decide your work scheduled.
• Market competitive compensation (in $$).
• Insane learning and growth