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Senior Rust Engineer

at NextLink Labs

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About the role

  • Senior Rust Developer with extensive Rust experience designing scalable backend services for diverse clients. Join NextLink Labs and contribute to critical architecture decisions in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Rust (Edition 2024) with Tokio as the async runtime
  • Implement and extend Clean Architecture with CQRS and Event Sourcing patterns using actor-based concurrency (Kameo)
  • Work with other engineers to architect and implement modular, well-structured solutions across workspace crates (model, domain, data, service)
  • Communicate directly with clients to give demonstrations and receive feedback
  • Build gRPC services using Tonic and Protocol Buffers with Prost for inter-service communication
  • Build and optimize data access layers using SQLx against PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB and Neo4j
  • Implement request validation using Garde
  • Work in an agile team environment with daily stand ups, and weekly agile meetings
  • Engage in code reviews of your teammates' work
  • Triage, diagnose, and resolve production support tickets and defects in Rust-based microservices running on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), owning the full lifecycle from root cause analysis through fix and deployment validation
  • Contribute to observability and monitoring using Tracing, OpenTelemetry, and OLTP exporters

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience building backend services with Rust with 3+ years supporting and maintaining production microservices-based architectures
  • Strong understanding of Clean Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and actor-based concurrency patterns
  • Experience designing and implementing gRPC APIs with Tonic and Protocol Buffers
  • Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB) and async query toolkits (SQLx)
  • Experience with validation frameworks such as Garde
  • Ability to work independently and take ownership in a variety of software engagements
  • Ability to scope individual features and full software projects based on client requests
  • Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills with the ability to build buy-in, facilitate compromise, and guide client expectations
  • Strong testing abilities using Cucumber (BDD/Gherkin) for integration tests and Rust's built-in test framework for unit tests
  • Proficient understanding of version control systems (Git)
  • Understanding of security best practices including JWT-based authentication and authorization
  • Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable and distributed systems
  • Strong debugging, root cause analysis, problem-solving, analytical, and strategic thinking abilities, capable of making well-informed and timely decisions
  • Hands-on experience with AKS (pod logs, deployment health, kubectl) and observability tooling, specifically Grafana and Azure Monitor/Application Insights
  • Familiarity with SRE principles including incident management, alerting best practices, and production observability

Benefits

  • Remote-first culture, flexible work schedule, and autonomy to do your best work.
  • Responsibility and autonomy at a growing company
  • The opportunity to build something big and exciting

Job title

Backend Engineer

Job type

Contract

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AzureDistributed SystemsGrafanaGRPCKubernetesMicroservicesNeo4jPostgresRust

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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