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I found 10 jobs at cool companies where you'll actually write rust

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Hi everyone,

While browsing job boards, I found it difficult to find jobs where you'd actually write Rust on the job. So, I compiled a list of jobs where the descriptions explicitly mention that you'll be writing Rust. Hope it helps!

1. Software Engineer, SmithDB @ LangChain

  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Salary: $175K–$240K
  • Tech stack: Rust, C++, Kubernetes
  • Rust on the job: "Engineer performant Rust code for ingestion and query execution."

2. Principal Rust Developer @ Zscaler

  • Location: San Jose, CA / Bellevue, WA
  • Salary: $182K–$260K
  • Tech stack: Rust, Linux, gRPC, Kubernetes
  • Rust on the job: "Design and build a low-latency, high-throughput data forwarding plane using Rust."

3. Senior Developer, Product Security @ 1Password

  • Location: Remote (Worldwide — US eligible)
  • Salary: $153K–$214K
  • Tech stack: Rust, Swift, Go, TypeScript
  • Rust on the job: Requires "3+ years of experience with Rust development and creating FFI interfaces."

4. Staff Rust SDK Engineer @ LiveKit

  • Location: Remote (US / Canada)
  • Salary: $120K–$250K
  • Tech stack: Rust, C++, Swift, Kotlin
  • Rust on the job: "Design, build, and maintain the LiveKit Rust SDK and shared Rust core modules."

5. Senior Software Engineer, Rust @ Apollo GraphQL

  • Location: Remote (US)
  • Salary: $157K–$199K
  • Tech stack: Rust, GraphQL
  • Rust on the job: "Build, test, and maintain fault-tolerant infrastructure for GraphQL runtime platforms in Rust."

6. Senior Software Engineer, Cloud @ Ditto

  • Location: Remote / SF / Seattle / Austin / Atlanta
  • Salary: $185K–$305K
  • Tech stack: Rust, Kubernetes, AWS, MongoDB
  • Rust on the job: "Lead development of services in Rust that integrate with Kubernetes."

7. Staff Engineer, Infrastructure Automation @ Fastly

  • Location: Denver, CO / New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
  • Salary: $211K–$254K
  • Tech stack: Rust, Go, Python, Ansible
  • Rust on the job: "Build and deploy new functionality in Rust for hardware provisioning and maintenance."

8. Senior Software Engineer @ Parallel Systems

  • Location: Los Angeles, CA
  • Salary: $150K–$212K
  • Tech stack: Rust, C++, Linux, Kubernetes
  • Rust on the job: "Develop and maintain system-level software written primarily in Rust" (autonomous rail freight).

9. AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents @ OpenAI

  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Salary: $230K–$385K
  • Tech stack: Rust, Python
  • Rust on the job: Requires "proficiency in Rust systems code and Python configuration layers."

10. Software Engineer, Backend (Workflow Runner) @ Profound

  • Location: New York, NY / San Francisco, CA
  • Salary: $140K–$260K
  • Tech stack: Rust, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka
  • Rust on the job: "Design and implement Rust-first backend services and APIs for workflows."