Senior Rust Engineer: Simulation & Backend (Hybrid, Stock)

BluJuniper; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance bonuses

Stock options

Health/dental/vision

Job summary

BluJuniper is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build high-performance simulation and backend systems in Rust. This hands‑on role involves owning critical components and collaborating with frontend and AI/ML teams to deliver reliable software for defense and national security missions.

Based in Arlington, VA, this hybrid position offers a base salary of $160,000–$210,000 plus bonus and stock options, with opportunities to lead architectural discussions and mentor other engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of professional Rust development experience.
• Strong Rust systems programming, ownership, concurrency, and memory safety.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance simulation systems and backend services using Rust.
• Take architectural ownership of major system components from design to production.
• Develop asynchronous backend services, REST APIs, and real‑time streaming capabilities.
• Design and optimize PostgreSQL schemas, queries, and data access patterns.
• Build reliable, scalable systems for complex computational workloads.
• Integrate simulation and backend systems with frontend applications and AI/ML capabilities.
• Establish engineering standards for software quality, maintainability, testing, and reliability.
• Lead technical design discussions, architecture reviews, and code reviews.
• Mentor engineers while remaining hands‑on.
• Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into production software.

Skills

Rust

Async Rust

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

WebSockets/SSE

Distributed systems

Code reviews

Mentoring

Tools

Tokio

sqlx

serde

Axum

Job description

BluJuniper is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to build high-performance simulation and backend systems in Rust. This hands‑on role involves owning critical components and collaborating with frontend and AI/ML teams to deliver reliable software for defense and national security missions.

Based in Arlington, VA, this hybrid position offers a base salary of $160,000–$210,000 plus bonus and stock options, with opportunities to lead architectural discussions and mentor other engineers.