System Engineer - Rust

Location: Austin, TX / Sunnyvale, CA (Onsite) – Contract‑to‑Hire.

About the role

We are building a new distributed multi‑tiered data orchestration service to support critical Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning systems and services with direct business and customer value. The team is collaborative, friendly, and values learning and clean, maintainable code. Engineers are responsible for the complete life‑cycle of features, from identifying improvement areas, proposing changes, driving implementation, to supporting production. The codebase is written entirely in modern Rust, emphasizing readable, maintainable, and performant code, with extensive testing for performance and correctness.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support highly scalable applications and web services.
• Participate in pair‑programming and share code ownership within an agile, small‑team environment.
• Write and maintain Rust code that meets performance, safety, and reliability standards.
• Develop and run multi‑level tests, including allocation/byte usage checks, fault injection, and race‑condition simulations.
• Identify areas for improvement, propose architectural changes, and drive their implementation.
• Support deployed features in production, troubleshooting and optimizing as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting highly scalable applications and web services.
• Proficiency with Rust, including async/await, Sync/Send, and modern tooling.
• Strong background in concurrent programming (locking, memory synchronization, atomic operations, etc.).
• Understanding of distributed system concepts such as consensus, replication, and failure detection.
• Bonus: Experience with blob storage solutions.
• Bonus: Experience with distributed key‑value databases.
• Bonus: Experience with Kubernetes and containers.
• Bonus: Experience with Linux system internals.
• Bonus: Experience with storage systems and internals.
• Bonus: Experience with back‑end web technologies.