Senior Software Engineer (Rust)

Job Description

Workato is seeking a Senior Rust Software Engineer to join their team. The candidate will play a crucial role in building new products within the company. This involves developing new code primarily in Rust, while also working with existing Go and Ruby codebases. The role also includes creating Proofs of Concept (PoCs) in new areas, driving successful projects to production or deprecating those that are not viable.Responsibilities include:

• Building new products inside the company
• Develop new code with Rust, and deal with existing Go/Ruby code
• Create PoC in the new areas and drive them to production or drop them away.

Requirements include:

• Strong experience writing, shipping, and maintaining Rust code (2+ years) in a production, and experience with higher-level languages (Ruby, Python, Go, JS, Java, etc.)
• Knowledge of basic data structures and algorithms, multiprocessing, memory management.
• Experience developing high-performance asynchronous applications with Rust (preferably tokio).
• Good understanding of network protocols and stacks.
• Good understanding of DB technologies: classic databases and modern no-SQL.
• Basic knowledge of DevOps practices and tools
• Understanding of Linux environment
• Readiness to work remotely with teams distributed across the world and timezones
• Spoken English (at the level enough to pass the technical interview and later work with colleagues)
• Being a result-oriented problem solver.
• Prefers coming up with proposals in problematic areas, rather than being passive.
• Being open to new technologies and switching between projects.

Workato offers:

• A flexible, trust-oriented culture
• A vibrant and dynamic work environment