Rust Engineer (Part Time)

About the Role
Remotebase places senior engineers with fast-growing product companies around the world. We’re building a pool of experienced Rust Developers for Part-time Engagements with our clients. You’ll build and maintain high-performance, reliable backend and systems software. Projects range from backend services and APIs to infrastructure tooling, data pipelines and performance-critical components.
This role suits engineers who already write production Rust and want flexible, meaningful work alongside their other commitments.
What You’ll Do
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
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
Embedded, networking, blockchain or distributed-systems experience
Open-source contributions to the Rust ecosystem
Experience with observability tools (tracing, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)
Background in C++ or Go
Benefits
In addition to a market competitive compensation, we have a reward philosophy that expand beyond this.
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

Work arrangement
No