Rust Engineer – Part Time

Remotebase

. Design, build and maintain production-grade services and libraries in Rust .

Posted 10/13/2026part-timeRemote • PakistanMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and maintaining production-grade services in Rust, with a strong focus on performance, memory management, and concurrency. Proficient in building async services using frameworks like Tokio and integrating with various databases and cloud infrastructures.

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Rust ProgrammingAsync Rust (Tokio)Concurrency and Memory ManagementSQL/NoSQL Databases (Postgres, Redis)CI/CD Practices

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Hard Skills

Production Software EngineeringPerformance ProfilingUnit Testing in RustIntegration Testing in RustProperty-Based TestingOwnership and Borrowing in RustTraits and Generics in RustDockerLinuxCloud Infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Soft Skills

Clear Written CommunicationMentoring Less-Experienced Engineers

Tools & Technologies

TokioAxumActix-webTonic (gRPC)SqlxDieselSeaORMOpenTelemetryPrometheus

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsConcurrencyMemory IssuesHot Path OptimizationEmbedded SystemsNetworkingBlockchainOpen-Source Contributions

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCLinuxNoSQLPostgresPrometheusPythonRedisRustSQLC++Go

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build and maintain production-grade services and libraries in Rust
Write safe, idiomatic and well-tested code, with careful attention to performance and memory use
Build async services with Tokio and frameworks such as Axum, Actix-web or Tonic (gRPC)
Profile and optimize hot paths, and find and fix concurrency, latency and memory issues
Integrate with databases, message queues and cloud infrastructure
Review code, guide less-experienced engineers and contribute to technical design decisions
Work asynchronously with distributed teams, with clear written communication

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 3+ years of production Rust
A deep understanding of ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits and generics
Strong hands-on experience with async Rust (Tokio, futures, Send/Sync bounds)
Experience building and running backend services or systems software in production
Solid grasp of concurrency, memory management and performance profiling
Comfortable with testing in Rust (unit, integration, property-based) and with CI/CD
Experience with SQL or NoSQL databases (Postgres, Redis and so on) through crates such as sqlx, Diesel or SeaORM
Familiarity with Docker, Linux and at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure)
Strong written and spoken English
Reliable availability of 20 hours/week, with 4 hours of overlap with US timezone.
Nice to Have: Unsafe Rust, FFI (C/C++ or Python via PyO3) or WebAssembly
Nice to Have: Embedded, networking, blockchain or distributed-systems experience
Nice to Have: Open-source contributions to the Rust ecosystem
Nice to Have: Experience with observability tools (tracing, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
Nice to Have: Background in C++ or Go

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote with office optional. You decide when you would like to work from home and when from the office.
Flexible timings. You decide your work scheduled.
Market competitive compensation (in $$).
Insane learning and growth