Senior Rust Engineer

Team: Backend

Location: Asia, Hong Kong

Commitment: Full-time Onsite or Remote

Workplace Type: hybrid

Requirements

• Design highly reliable services capable of handling significant traffic fluctuations
• Monitor backend performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement effective optimizations
• Design and develop scalable backend systems, services, and APIs
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges

Responsibilities

• Over 5 years of software engineering experience with a solid foundation in backend systems
• Proficient in Rust, with deep understanding of Ownership, Lifetime, and safety boundaries; or proficient in C++, able to write robust and efficient code
• Familiar with Tokio / async-std, with experience in asynchronous and multithreaded concurrent programming
• Experience in system-level performance optimization, familiar with caching, memory pools, object reuse, and other optimization techniques
• Familiar with network technologies such as TCP, UDP Multicast, epoll, io_uring
• Familiar with Linux performance tuning including CPU Affinity, isolcpus, IRQ Affinity
• Proficient in using performance analysis and benchmarking tools such as perf, FlameGraph, Cachegrind, Criterion
• Practical experience in deploying software in production environments, proficient with Linux
• Solid educational background: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields

Bonus Points

• Experience in high-performance system development and performance optimization with C++ / Rust
• Experience extending production databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MongoDB
• Experience building trading systems (exchange experience preferred) or financial/security constrained systems