Systems Engineer Go and Rust

We are looking for a Senior Systems Engineer with strong experience in Go and Rust to build performance-critical services and infrastructure-facing components.Primary Technology StackGoRustgRPCProtocol BuffersKubernetesKey ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement gRPC services for internal, low-latency service-to-service communication.Define and evolve Protocol Buffer schemas while maintaining backward-compatible API versioning across services.Build performance-sensitive components in Go and Rust, including data pipelines, proxies, and long-running agents.Develop infrastructure automation integrations for internal platform tools, including Kubernetes cluster management, GitOps synchronization, and deployment orchestration.Contribute to the Internal Developer Platform and its infrastructure automation capabilities.Containerize services and create Kubernetes deployment manifests and Helm charts.Profile and optimize services for latency, memory usage, throughput, and overall performance.Work closely with platform, backend, and infrastructure engineers to build reliable distributed systems.Required Skills & ExperienceStrong production experience with Go, including concurrency patterns such as goroutines, channels, and context cancellation.Working experience with Rust, including ownership, borrowing, and asynchronous programming with runtimes such as Tokio.Solid experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers, including service definitions, streaming RPCs, and interceptors.Strong understanding of Kubernetes fundamentals, including Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and readiness/liveness probes.Ability to reason about system performance at the OS, networking, and application layers.Experience building and operating production-grade distributed services.Preferred SkillsExperience with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.Experience with distributed tracing and observability, particularly OpenTelemetry.Experience authoring CI/CD pipelines for multi-language builds.Experience with GitOps tooling, such as Argo CD or Flux.Basic PostgreSQL administration experience is a plus, but not required.