Principal Rust Developer

TL;DR

Principal Rust Developer: Designing and building a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust. Focus on efficient I/O, service-oriented infrastructure, and optimizing system performance through profiling tools.

Location: This is a hybrid role, reporting in the San Jose office 3 days a week.

Salary: $182,000 - $260,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is the operator of the world’s largest security cloud, which accelerates digital transformation so enterprises can be more agile, efficient, resilient, and secure.

What you will do

• Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust.
• Develop distributed, scalable systems with a focus on concurrency, fault tolerance, and messaging.
• Implement and maintain gRPC-based APIs and services to integrate forwarding plane capabilities.
• Optimize system performance through profiling tools across kernel-space and user-space.
• Engage in code reviews, system design discussions, and technical documentation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience including experience coding with Rust.
• Proven expertise in building resilient, observable, and horizontally scalable distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of Linux fundamentals, including networking, namespaces, sockets, and kernel-user space interaction.
• Proficient in container-based environments, Git, CI/CD workflows, and performance instrumentation.

Nice to have

• Experience with systems languages like C/C++ or Go.
• Familiarity with Linux networking stacks, kernel-space technologies, Kubernetes networking, service meshes, or observability tools.
• Hands-on experience with gRPC, Protobufs, service-oriented architectures, and L2–L4 networking protocols.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive and inclusive benefits to meet the diverse needs of employees and their families.
• Various health plans.
• Time off plans for vacation and sick time.
• Parental leave options.
• Education reimbursement.