Senior Rust Platform Engineer — Build Distributed AI Infra

webAI; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and incentives

Comprehensive health benefits

401k Match

Unlimited PTO

Parental Leave

Life Insurance

Job summary

webAI in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Platform Rust Engineer to build the core software platform that supports our enterprise and consumer products. You will design reusable platform capabilities and expose them through stable APIs and SDKs, spanning architecture, backend development, and developer experience.

You will own features from design to release, work across complex systems, improve CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn needs into practical

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, client libraries, or developer-facing platform interfaces.
• Strong systems-engineering skills, including concurrency, process boundaries, resource management, failure modes, and performance.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Experience packaging, versioning, and distributing production software.
• Ability to write maintainable code, effective tests, clear technical documentation, and useful examples.
• Experience diagnosing complex integration, reliability, and performance problems.
• Proven ability to take complex or ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, and release.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Responsibilities

• Design and build reliable platform capabilities shared across webAI products.
• Develop backend and systems software with a focus on performance, security, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Create clear, stable APIs and SDKs for internal and external developers.
• Own features from architecture and implementation through testing, packaging, release, and production support.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for multi-platform builds, automated testing, artifact publishing, and releases.
• Establish sound practices for API evolution, versioning, compatibility, and migration.
• Write documentation, examples, and reference implementations alongside the APIs they explain.
• Diagnose performance, concurrency, reliability, and integration problems across complex systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn product needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve developer tooling and workflows as the platform and SDK ecosystem grow.

Skills

APIs/SDKs design

Backend development

CI/CD pipelines

Documentation

Performance & security

Concurrency

Rust

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Rust ecosystem tools

Job description

webAI in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Platform Rust Engineer to build the core software platform that supports our enterprise and consumer products. You will design reusable platform capabilities and expose them through stable APIs and SDKs, spanning architecture, backend development, and developer experience.

You will own features from design to release, work across complex systems, improve CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn needs into practical