Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The C++ Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and growing the C++ ecosystem through infrastructure, tooling, documentation, and community initiatives. The Rust Developer will design, build, and maintain Rust-based tools, services, CLI applications, and infrastructure while owning features from design through deployment and contributing to reliable, well-documented engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Rust-based tools, services, and CLI applications
- Own features end to end, from design and implementation through testing and deployment
- Write clean, well-tested, well-documented, production-grade Rust
- Participate in code review, architecture discussions, and technical planning
- Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and correctness issues in production systems
- Contribute to and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
- Document technical decisions clearly for both internal and public audiences
Skills
- 3+ years building production systems, with significant Rust experience (professional or substantial open-source)
- Strong grasp of Rust's ownership model, concurrency primitives, and async ecosystem (Tokio or async-std)
- Experience building and maintaining CLI tools, services, or backend systems in Rust
- Solid software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control (Git), CI/CD, and code review
- Strong written communication, since much of our work is asynchronous and clear documentation and PR descriptions matter
- Self-directed and comfortable in a remote, distributed team
- Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source projects, ideally in Rust or developer tooling
- Experience with WebAssembly, FFI, or cross-language tooling
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment (AWS, Docker, etc.)
- Prior experience with a nonprofit, foundation, or open-source-focused organization
Benefits
- Remote, distributed team
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