Senior Rust Engineer - Remote, Distributed Systems & Infra

Rustify; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Rustify is hiring a Senior Rust Engineer to create a Rust-based workflow and rules engine for a scaling product company. The role focuses on infrastructure, correctness, and high-performance backend systems. You will shape Rust adoption and oversee critical platform services with autonomy.

You’ll work with technical leadership to drive architecture, reliability, and maintainability while solving real business problems end-to-end in a remote, high-ownership environment.

Qualifications

• Proven production Rust experience.
• Experience with distributed systems or platform engineering.
• Comfortable with async/concurrent architectures.
• Experience owning systems in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production Rust services powering critical platform workflows.
• Work on distributed systems and backend infrastructure.
• Help define internal Rust engineering direction and best practices.
• Collaborate with senior leadership on architecture decisions.
• Build reliable, correct, and maintainable systems.
• Contribute to a fast-moving, high-ownership engineering culture.

Skills

Rust expertise

Distributed systems

Async/concurrent

Production ownership

Job description

Rustify is hiring a Senior Rust Engineer to create a Rust-based workflow and rules engine for a scaling product company. The role focuses on infrastructure, correctness, and high-performance backend systems. You will shape Rust adoption and oversee critical platform services with autonomy.

You’ll work with technical leadership to drive architecture, reliability, and maintainability while solving real business problems end-to-end in a remote, high-ownership environment.