Senior Rust Systems Engineer: Distributed Backends

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

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.