Qualified Recruitment Australia – Sydney NSW$165,000 - $180,000 a yearFull time, PermanentHybrid4mo ago , from Professional Recruitment AustraliaSenior Software Engineer (Rust) | High-Performance Backend Systems | Sydney (Hybrid)About the opportunityJoin 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 roleDesign, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems in Rust and JavaBuild scalable, reliable asynchronous systems using modern concurrency patternsOptimise throughput, latency, memory usage,



and I/O for large-scale processing workloadsDevelop robust APIs and reusable internal libraries and componentsContribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making, working across distributed global teamsWhat you'll bring5+ years of software engineering experience in Java, plus 2+ years of hands-on production RustStrong async Rust experience (Tokio or similar)Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and buffer managementExperience shipping production-grade distributed or high-performance backend systemsAbility to work independently through technically ambiguous problemsDesirable: 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 superFlexible hybrid working modelOngoing learning and career developmentGenerous paid time offReady to build high-performance systems at real scale?
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📌 Senior Software Engineer (New South Wales)
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