Job Description

About the Role n

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Rust Engineer to join a growing technology organisation building next-generation data infrastructure platforms. This role will focus on designing, developing and optimising high-performance backend systems that can process large-scale datasets with speed, reliability and scalability.

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Working within a highly skilled engineering team, you'll leverage your expertise in Rust, asynchronous programming and distributed systems to solve complex technical challenges, influence architectural decisions and contribute to the ongoing evolution of a mission-critical platform.

Key Responsibilities Systems & Software Engineering n

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- Design, develop and maintain high-performance backend systems using Rust and Java.
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- Build scalable, reliable asynchronous services using modern concurrency patterns.
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- Develop APIs, internal tooling, reusable libraries and engineering frameworks.
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- Contribute to system architecture and technical decision-making.
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- Deliver solutions for large-scale data processing workloads.
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Performance & Reliability nn
- Optimise throughput, latency, memory utilisation and I/O performance.
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- Analyse and improve memory ownership, buffer management and serialization efficiency.
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- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across distributed systems.
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- Ensure production readiness through testing, debugging, monitoring and code reviews.
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- Drive improvements in scalability, reliability and maintainability.
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Collaboration & Delivery nn
- Partner with engineering, product and platform teams to deliver business outcomes.
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- Take ownership of technically complex and ambiguous challenges.
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- Contribute to engineering best practices,



technical documentation, and knowledge sharing.
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- Work effectively with globally distributed teams and stakeholders.
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Essential Requirements nn
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including strong Java development expertise.
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- 2+ years of hands-on commercial Rust development experience within production environments.
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- Strong experience with asynchronous Rust programming, ideally using Tokio.
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- Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, allocations and buffer management.
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- Proven experience building and delivering distributed systems or high-performance backend applications.
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- Strong knowledge of concurrency, backpressure handling, cancellation, streams and async execution models.
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- Experience designing APIs, internal libraries or reusable engineering frameworks.
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- Excellent debugging, troubleshooting and performance optimisation skills.
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- Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and drive solutions through to delivery.
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- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
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What's on Offer? nn
- Permanent opportunity with a growing technology business.
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- Work on challenging, large-scale engineering problems using Rust.
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- Influence architecture and technical direction.
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- Collaborative, engineering-led workplace.
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- Chatswood location with flexible working arrangements.
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At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity. First Nations people are encouraged to apply.

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We provide reasonable adjustments, including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with a disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please call or

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📌 Senior Rust Engineer (Sydney)
🏢 Clicks It Recruitment
📍 Sydney