Senior Rust System Engineer

MPower Plus; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

MPower Plus in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and Rust to design scalable backend services.

You will own features end-to-end from design through testing and deployment, optimize performance, and contribute to AI/ML data orchestration. Experience with async Rust, Sync/Send, memory synchronization is required; Kubernetes and containers are nice-to-have.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of Rust asynchronous programming (async/await) and ownership semantics.
• Experience with production software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support highly scalable distributed systems and backend services using Rust.
• Build high-performance, concurrent systems using Rust async/await, Sync/Send, memory synchronization, and atomic operations.
• Work on distributed concepts such as consensus, replication, fault tolerance, and failure detection.
• Own features end-to-end from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.
• Optimize low-level performance, reliability, and maintainable code for AI/ML data orchestration systems.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrent programming

Production software lifecycle

Tools

Rust

Kubernetes

Containers

Linux internals

Distributed KV databases

Blob storage

Job description

Position: Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems / Rust

Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and support highly scalable distributed systems and backend services using modern Rust.

Build high-performance, concurrent systems using Rust async/await, Sync/Send, memory synchronization, and atomic operations.

Work on distributed concepts such as consensus, replication, fault tolerance, and failure detection.

Own features end-to-end from design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support.

Optimize low-level performance, reliability, and maintainable code for AI/ML data orchestration systems.

Must-Have Skills:

Distributed systems + concurrent programming experience.

Rust async/await, Sync/Send, ownership/borrowing.

Experience with production software lifecycle.

Nice to Have: Kubernetes, containers, Linux internals, storage systems, distributed KV databases, blob storage.