Senior Rust Engineer, Systems + Backend (Full-time, remote from LatAm)
Ruzora places senior LatAm engineers full-time with US startups. We're hiring a Senior Rust Engineer to join a partner company building performance-critical systems: high-throughput APIs, data pipelines, developer tooling, and services being rewritten from Go, C++ or Python. You'll own services end to end, from design and async runtime choices to observability and deployment.
What you'll do
- Design and build backend services and CLIs in Rust (Tokio, Axum, Actix)
- Own performance work: profiling, memory layout, zero-copy parsing, concurrency
- Move hot paths from Python, Go or C++ to Rust where it pays off
- Write safe FFI boundaries and bindings to existing code
- Set up observability, benchmarks and CI for Rust services
- Review code and raise the bar on correctness across the team
What we're looking for
- 5+ years of backend or systems engineering, 2+ years shipping Rust to production
- Deep understanding of ownership, lifetimes, traits and async Rust
- Tokio and at least one web framework (Axum, Actix, Warp)
- Networking, serialization and database access (sqlx, Diesel)
- Comfortable with Linux, containers and cloud deployment
- Excellent written and spoken English (B2 or higher)
Nice to have
- C, C++ or Go before Rust
- WebAssembly, embedded or blockchain runtimes
- Contributions to Rust open-source crates
- gRPC, Kafka or high-throughput event systems
Stack: Rust, Tokio, Axum, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Docker
What you get
- Full-time, 100% remote from anywhere in Latin America
- Competitive salary in USD
- Flexible hours with overlap with US time zones
- Professional development budget, health insurance stipend, equipment allowance
Full role details: https://www.ruzora.com/jobs/rust-engineer
