Staff Rust Engineer

• Career Level Team Lead / Manager / Supervisor
• City Berlin
• State/Province Berlin
• Country Germany

Job Description

Our clientis a technology company focused on transforming data ownership. They buildsolutions that give businesses and individuals control over their data, with astrong emphasis on privacy, security, and decentralized digital identity. Theirmission is to enable trusted, cross-border data exchange throughstandards-based, open, and secure digital credentials.

Our clientis seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) with deep expertise in Rust tolead the development of secure, scalable, and high-performance backend systems.This is a senior, hands-on role with strong architectural responsibility,working closely with product, design, infrastructure, and engineering teamsacross multiple regions.

• Design, build, and maintain secure andhigh-performance backend services using Rust
• Lead architectural decisions and contribute tolong-term technical strategy
• Develop and improve a large-scale,multi-component platform
• Optimize system performance, scalability, andreliability
• Ensure high standards of code quality,testing, and security
• Mentor engineers through code reviews,technical guidance, and knowledge sharing
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in anagile, fast-paced environment
• Contribute to open-source projects andstandards-based software development.

Requirements

• Strongbackend engineering experience with Rust as a core language
• Provenexperience designing and operating distributed systems
• Solidbackground in performance optimization and troubleshooting at scale
• Experiencewith cloud-native architectures, preferably on AWS
• Knowledgeof TypeScript/Node.js; experience with Dart is a strong plus
• Understandingof authentication, authorization, and security-first design
• Experiencewith cryptography in production systems
• Abilityto clearly document and communicate technical and architectural decisions
• Comfortableworking autonomously in a startup or scale-up environment.

Nice to Have

• Experiencewith decentralized identity or verifiable credentials
• Backgroundin advanced cryptography use cases
• Experienceworking with globally distributed teams

• Hybridworking model with flexible hours
  
• Unlimitedvacation policy
  
• Internationaland diverse working environment