Build and own Rust-based infrastructure services (reverse proxies, credential brokers, log collectors)
Ship end-to-end from design doc to production
Implement and verify authentication protocols and access control enforcement
Write thorough tests for code where bugs have security implications
Design new infrastructure components
Define module boundaries, memory budgets, streaming patterns, and graceful shutdown semantics
Build distributed telemetry and log collection systems
Be the go-to engineer when other teams need systems-level help
Drive design documents for new components and evaluate build-vs-buy decisions

8+ years of professional software engineering
At least 3 years building performance-critical or security-critical systems
Experience with Rust, including async Rust and the tokio/hyper ecosystem
Strong understanding of networking (TCP/HTTP), memory management, streaming/backpressure, and concurrency
Comfortable reasoning about authentication protocols, input validation, and adversarial edge cases
Experience deploying and operating services on Kubernetes
Familiarity with the operator pattern, Helm, and cloud-native infrastructure
Experience with property-based testing, integration test harnesses, or fuzz testing
Bsc/Msc in related field or equivalent experience

Staff Software Engineer, Rust

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