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Senior Rust Engineer
Quantum-secure encryption company, NYC
Comp at placement$180k - $220k + equityEquityNew York, NY · Hybrid
About the role
Rust engineers who have shipped production systems are a thin market, and this client needed one who could work on low-level, security-critical code without a long ramp. The role owns core services written in Rust, from cryptographic key delivery paths to the networking and storage layers around them, with correctness and performance as the bar. The team is small and senior, so the hire needed to be comfortable owning design decisions and reviewing others' work.
What the role owned
- Design and implementation of core services in Rust with strict correctness and performance requirements.
- Secure networking, storage, and key-delivery components, and the tests that prove them.
- Performance profiling, memory safety reviews, and hardening of production paths.
- Code review and technical mentorship on a small, senior team.
What the client was looking for
- Production Rust experience on systems that run in customers' hands, not side projects alone.
- Strong systems fundamentals: concurrency, memory, networking, and low-level performance.
- Comfortable working close to cryptography and security review without needing to be a cryptographer.
- Clear communicator who can defend a design and change it when shown a better one.
Nice to have
- Prior work in security products, cryptography, or high-assurance systems.
- Contributions to open source Rust crates or tooling.
How the search ran
Passive-candidate search. Live technical screens on production Rust. Closed in 41 days.
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