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Senior Rust Engineer — Central London (Hybrid, 1 day/week) — Up to £100k + Stock Options
We're hiring for a fast-growing AI content platform building serious infrastructure for global enterprise brands — think unifying and searching content across every system a big brand owns, powered by AI. Sub-50 in the team, strong engineering culture, real product-market fit already proven with major clients.
The role
You'd be the senior Rust voice on the team. Full ownership — architecture, build, deploy, run in production. No DevOps team, no separate QA.
You'll set the standard for Rust across the team and review code from outsourced engineers, so you need to actually know what good looks like, not just have Rust on your CV.
What you'll be doing
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- Building and running production Rust microservices on AWS
- Making the architecture calls — end to end, not just implementing someone else's spec
- Setting the bar on testing, code review, observability
- Reviewing outsourced engineers' work and pushing quality up
- Working directly with the Engineering Manager and PM
- Shipping via CI/CD, trunk-based, no drama
Stack
- Rust (Tokio, Tonic/gRPC, custom parsing layer)
- Protobuf
- Envoy
- NATS
- Postgres
- Clustered Redis
- OpenSearch
- AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3)
- Terraform
Scale
Real distributed-systems scale — hundreds of thousands of concurrent events, millions of assets processed monthly. B2B.
What we need from you
- Production Rust — idiomatic async, solid on ownership/lifetimes, proper error handling.
- You've actually designed and run distributed backend systems at scale
- End-to-end ownership mindset
- gRPC/Protobuf and event-driven architecture experience
- AWS comfortable (GCP/Azure fine too)
- Trunk-based dev, CI/CD, automated testing
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Bonus points
- LLM/embeddings/ML pipeline experience
- Background in content, media, or data-heavy platforms
- Python or TypeScript/Node on top of Rust
Package
- Up to £100k base + stock options
- Private medical
- Travel insurance
- Pension
- Travel and lunches covered on office days and full AI tooling access, including Claude Code
One non-negotiable
Right to work in the UK. No visa sponsorship on this one.
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