Senior Rust Engineer - Remote Backend & Systems Leader

Kake; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive USD pay

Fully remote work

Better Me Fund

Social good culture

Job summary

Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. We’re seeking Senior Rust Engineers who build memory-safe, high-performance backend services and distributed systems.

You will own complex technical challenges end-to-end and drive engineering best practices across critical projects. Join a remote, fast-paced team with international colleagues, overlap US time zones, and work with Tokio, Cargo, and modern CI/CD workflows to ship reliable software.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with hands-on Rust.
• Deep understanding of core Rust concepts (ownership model, borrow checker, lifetimes, traits, macros).
• Experience with systems programming including multithreading and concurrency.
• Hands-on asynchronous programming in Rust, using frameworks like Tokio.
• Comfortable with the Rust toolchain including Cargo, git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven experience designing and implementing highly scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Ability to work independently in a remote, fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable, memory-safe backend services and distributed systems in Rust.
• Write high-performance, concurrent code applying solid systems programming principles.
• Build and maintain asynchronous services using Tokio and async/await patterns.
• Apply core Rust concepts to write robust, idiomatic code.
• Act as a technical leader, guiding architectural decisions across projects.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex architectural and coding challenges in production systems.
• Contribute to best practices, tooling, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Maintain modern Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines to support reliable delivery.

Skills

Rust

Systems programming

Asynchronous Rust

Tokio

Cargo

CI/CD pipelines

Git workflows

Tools

Tokio

Cargo

CI/CD

Git

Job description

Kake is a remote-first company and a people-first global community of senior engineers. We’re seeking Senior Rust Engineers who build memory-safe, high-performance backend services and distributed systems.

You will own complex technical challenges end-to-end and drive engineering best practices across critical projects. Join a remote, fast-paced team with international colleagues, overlap US time zones, and work with Tokio, Cargo, and modern CI/CD workflows to ship reliable software.