Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DEPT® is a pioneering technology and marketing services company that creates integrated end-to-end digital experiences for global brands. The Senior Full Stack Rust Engineer will build and maintain production Rust applications, focusing on backend systems, APIs, databases, distributed architectures, testing, Kubernetes deployments, observability, and occasional React frontend contributions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain production Rust applications, including backend services, APIs, and system-level components
- Write and optimize complex SQL queries for performance and correctness at scale
- Debug and troubleshoot Rust applications in production environments, including memory safety issues, concurrency bugs, and performance regressions
- Contribute to frontend development using React where needed, including integration with micro frontend architectures
- Participate in the design and implementation of microservice and distributed system architectures
- Write and maintain comprehensive test suites: unit tests, integration tests, and endtoend tests following established best practices
- Deploy, monitor, and maintain services in containerized Kubernetes environments
- Implement and maintain observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and alerting for missioncritical distributed systems
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to team members at all levels
- Mentor junior engineers on Rust best practices, systems design, and production engineering discipline
- Leverage agentic coding assistive tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude CLI) responsibly to accelerate development while maintaining code quality and security standards
Skills
- 5+ years of experience creating and managing Rust applications in production environments
- Strong command of Rust's ownership model, lifetime system, trait system, and error handling patterns
- Experience with the async Rust ecosystem (Tokio, async-std, or equivalent runtimes)
- Proficiency with common Rust web frameworks and libraries (Actix, Axum, Warp, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated ability to debug Rust applications in production: diagnosing panics, memory issues, deadlocks, and performance bottlenecks
- Strong systems/backend engineering experience in a production setting — this is not a prototyping or research role
- Experience designing and building APIs, background workers, data pipelines, or other backend services that run reliably at scale
- SQL and Data Strong experience creating scalable and efficient SQL queries, including complex joins, window functions, indexing strategy, and query plan analysis
- Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or equivalent) in production
- Familiarity with testing best practices in Rust and broader software engineering
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how testing fits into a production deployment workflow
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and containerized environments: deploying, scaling, and troubleshooting services running in containers
- Experience with observability and alerting in mission-critical distributed systems: structured logging, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or equivalent), metrics (Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent), and alerting configuration
- Ability to communicate effectively with team members at all levels — engineers, product managers, and leadership
- Willingness and ability to mentor junior engineers: code review, pair programming, and knowledge sharing on Rust and systems engineering topics
- Experience writing and maintaining unit tests, integration tests, and ideally propertybased or fuzz tests
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
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