Senior Rust Engineer

NextLink Labs

Senior Rust Engineer at NextLink Labs building scalable backend services using Rust. Join our remote team and contribute to innovative software solutions for clients.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGRPCNeo4jRust

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Rust
Work with other engineers to architect and implement modular, well-structured solutions across workspace crates (model, domain, data, service)
Build gRPC services for inter-service communication
Build and optimize data access layers for relational, time-series and graph databases
Work in an agile team environment with daily stand ups, and weekly agile meetings
Engage in code reviews of your teammates' work
Communicate directly with the client to give demonstrations and receive feedback
Contribute to observability and monitoring using Tracing and OpenTelemetry

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience building backend services, with at least 2-3yrs building production systems in Rust
Strong understanding of Clean Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and actor-based concurrency patterns
Experience designing and implementing gRPC APIs; Familiarity with Tonic is a plus
Proficiency with relational, time-series and graph databases - experience with TimescaleDB, Neo4j preferred
Strong testing practices including unit and integration testing - Familiarity with BDD frameworks like Cucumber is a plus
Understanding of security best practices including JWT-based authentication and authorization
Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable and distributed systems

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary with bonus structure
Remote-first culture, flexible work schedule, and autonomy to do your best work.
Healthcare (Medical, Dental, and Vision) and 401k
Paid parental leave
Responsibility and autonomy at a growing company
The opportunity to build something big and exciting

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Hard Skills & Tools

RustgRPCClean ArchitectureCQRSEvent Sourcingactor-based concurrencyunit testingintegration testingJWT-based authenticationscalable systems

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationcode reviewagile methodologyclient engagement