Senior Rust Engineer — Scalable, Remote Storage Systems

Hugging Face; New York (NY); On-site; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in company

Remote options

Health, dental and vision benefits

Flexible paid time off

Job summary

Hugging Face is seeking a senior engineer for the Xet Storage team to help scale and operate the storage backend powering the Hugging Face platform. You will work on xet-core in Rust and contribute to hf-xet, the Python library that underpins the Hub client and open-source ecosystem.

We value low-level performance, ownership end-to-end, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, remote environment. This role offers opportunities to influence infrastructure used by researchers and builders

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and scaling distributed systems, storage, or networking infrastructure.
• Proficiency in a low-level systems language, with Rust strongly preferred; Python/Typescript/Go/C++ used across the stack.
• Ability to work independently in a high-trust, low-process environment and take ownership end to end.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, async, fully remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to xet-core Rust project powering hf-xet and the Hub client.
• Design, build, and operate features in the Xet Storage backend within the Infrastructure organization.

Skills

Distributed systems experience

Rust

Python

Typescript

Go

C++

Tools

Git internals

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

Job description

Hugging Face is seeking a senior engineer for the Xet Storage team to help scale and operate the storage backend powering the Hugging Face platform. You will work on xet-core in Rust and contribute to hf-xet, the Python library that underpins the Hub client and open-source ecosystem.

We value low-level performance, ownership end-to-end, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, remote environment. This role offers opportunities to influence infrastructure used by researchers and builders