Senior Software Engineer (Rust) | High-Performance Backend Systems | Sydney (Hybrid) About the opportunity Join an established software company building the backend systems behind an enterprise data platform used across asset-intensive industries like energy, utilities, mining, and manufacturing.
This is a systems engineering role at heart, memory management, concurrency, and performance at genuine production scale, in a business with an international footprint and a long track record in enterprise software.
The role Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems in Rust and Java Build scalable, reliable asynchronous systems using modern concurrency patterns Optimise throughput, latency, memory usage, and I/O for large-scale processing workloads Develop robust APIs and reusable internal libraries and components Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making,



working across distributed global teams What you'll bring 5+ years of software engineering experience in Java, plus 2+ years of hands-on production Rust Strong async Rust experience (Tokio or similar) Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and buffer management Experience shipping production-grade distributed or high-performance backend systems Ability to work independently through technically ambiguous problems Desirable: gRPC in Rust, high-throughput streaming architectures, cloud data lake experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), and exposure to data governance or rules-engine platforms.
What's on offer $165,000 to $180,000 plus super Adaptable hybrid working model Ongoing learning and career development Generous paid time off Ready to build high-performance systems at real scale?
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