Staff Rust Engineer - Secure, Scalable Distributed Systems

Fortanix, Inc.; Santa Clara, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Volunteer Time Off

Internet stipend

401k

Equity

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Wellness Program

Short- and Long-Term Disability

Holidays

Job summary

Fortanix, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Confidential Computing Management team. You will design, build, and own core platform services powering secure, distributed systems at scale.

This high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role shapes architecture and guides critical design decisions. You’ll contribute to core components like Runtime Encryption and confidential computing services, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with backend and distributed systems expertise.
• Experience designing and building microservices from scratch.
• End-to-end ownership of services including design, deployment, scaling and operations.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts (scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, data consistency).

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed microservices powering Fortanix’s platform across hybrid/multicloud.
• Own end-to-end architecture—from design to deployment and production reliability.
• Drive technical direction across services to fit the broader platform.
• Lead system design discussions and API interfaces across teams.
• Build with a security-first mindset; ensure auditable, resilient services.
• Write production-grade code in Rust, C/C++, or similar; contribute to reviews.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and infra teams on cross-functional systems.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Rust

C/C++

Go

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

CI/CD

Linux

Data storage (SQL/NoSQL)

Security-minded design

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Job description

Fortanix, Inc. seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join the Confidential Computing Management team. You will design, build, and own core platform services powering secure, distributed systems at scale.

This high-impact, hands-on technical leadership role shapes architecture and guides critical design decisions. You’ll contribute to core components like Runtime Encryption and confidential computing services, ensuring security, reliability, and scalability.