Senior Rust Engineer - Scalable Low-Latency Platform

Zscaler; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company is seeking a Principal Rust Developer to join their Platform Convergence Team in San Jose. This hybrid role involves designing a new platform to support millions of users, focusing on building low-latency data forwarding systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive Rust experience, knowledge in distributed systems, and Linux fundamentals. Exceptional problem-solving skills and customer obsession are essential. Competitive salary range of $182,000 - $260,000 USD offered.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience coding with Rust.
• Proven expertise in building resilient, observable, distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Linux networking, namespaces, and sockets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust.
• Develop scalable systems focusing on concurrency and fault tolerance.
• Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services.

Skills

Rust programming

Systems programming

Async frameworks like Tokio

Building distributed systems

Linux fundamentals

Tools

Git

CI/CD workflows

gRPC

Kubernetes

Job description

A leading cybersecurity company is seeking a Principal Rust Developer to join their Platform Convergence Team in San Jose. This hybrid role involves designing a new platform to support millions of users, focusing on building low-latency data forwarding systems. The ideal candidate will have extensive Rust experience, knowledge in distributed systems, and Linux fundamentals. Exceptional problem-solving skills and customer obsession are essential. Competitive salary range of $182,000 - $260,000 USD offered.