Job Description

Founded in 2002 in Sydney, with offices in India and a presence across the Americas and Europe, Prospecta is a leading data management software company. Our flagship platform, Master Data Online (MDO), enables accurate, compliant, and relevant master data for asset-intensive industries including Energy, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Mining, Infrastructure, and Manufacturing.

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We pride ourselves on agility, collaboration, and innovation delivering real value to customers while fostering a diverse, growth-driven culture that encourages learning, embraces challenges, and celebrates success.

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About the Job:

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Location: Sydney, Australia

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Role Summary: We are looking for a Senior Rust Engineer to build high-performance, scalable backend systems for Prospecta's next-generation data infrastructure platform. This role requires strong expertise in production-grade Rust, async programming, and systems-level problem solving, along with the ability to independently drive complex technical solutions in a fast-paced engineering environment.

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Must Have:

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- 5+ years of software engineering experience in Java and at least 2+ years of hands-on production Rust development.
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- Strong expertise in asynchronous Rust programming using Tokio or similar frameworks.
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- Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, allocations, and buffer management.
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- Experience building and shipping production-grade distributed or high-performance backend systems.
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- Strong understanding of concurrency, backpressure handling, cancellation, streams, and async execution models.
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- Ability to independently solve technically ambiguous problems and deliver working solutions.
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- Strong debugging,



problem-solving, and performance optimization skills.
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- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
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Good to Have:

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- Experience with high-throughput data processing systems or streaming architectures.
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- Familiarity with columnar data formats or large structured datasets.
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- Experience with gRPC in Rust.
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- Exposure to cloud platforms and data lakes storage services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
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- Understanding of query optimization concepts such as partitioning or predicate pushdown.
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- Experience working in enterprise SaaS or B2B product environments.
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- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and distributed systems architecture.
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- Prior experience mentoring engineers or contributing to technical leadership initiatives.
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Key Responsibilities:

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Systems & Software Engineering

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- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Rust/Java.
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- Build scalable and reliable asynchronous systems using concurrency patterns.
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- Optimize system throughput, latency, memory usage, and I/O performance for large-scale data processing workloads.
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- Develop robust APIs, internal libraries, and reusable engineering components.
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- Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to technical decision-making.
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Performance & Reliability

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- Analyze and improve memory allocation patterns, buffer ownership, and serialization performance.
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- Implement efficient processing strategies for streaming and large structured datasets.
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- Ensure code quality, maintainability, and production readiness through testing, debugging, and code reviews.
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- Identify bottlenecks proactively and recommend scalable engineering solutions.
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- Work closely with cross-functional engineering and product teams to deliver solutions aligned with business goals.
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- Operate effectively in technically ambiguous environments and independently drive implementation approaches.
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- Contribute to engineering best practices, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across the team.
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- Collaborate with distributed global teams while ensuring effective communication and delivery alignment.
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Growth Path:

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At Prospecta, your career journey is one of growth and chance. Here, depending on your career journey you can either kickstart your career or accelerate your professional development in a dynamic environment. Your success is our priority, and as you demonstrate your abilities and achieve results, you'll have the chance to advance into the leadership roles.

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- Generous paidtime off;
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- Flexible hybrid working model
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- Annual company events andworkshops.
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If you're ready to join an innovative, forward-thinking organization and work alongside inspiring leaders like Jayant Saikia and Hai Tong we'd love to hear from you.

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Join Prospecta and take the first step toward an exciting, impactful, and rewarding career!

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📌 Senior Development Engineer (Rust) (New South Wales)
🏢 Prospecta Software
📍 New South Wales