Rust Engineer - AWS & Microservices

Job Role : Rust Engineer - AWS & Microservices

Experience : 5 Years

Location : Pune

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, develop and maintain scalable microservices and APIs using Rust.
• Build REST and gRPC services using frameworks such as Tokio, Axum, Actix Web or equivalent.
• Develop robust domain logic, API validation, error handling, persistence, caching and messaging components.
• Implement asynchronous and concurrent applications using Rust async/await and Tokio.
• Integrate Rust applications with AWS services including S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora and Secrets Manager.
• Develop container-ready applications suitable for AWS EKS, ECS and Fargate environments.
• Implement application health checks, readiness checks, graceful shutdown and production-ready configuration management.
• Develop structured logging, metrics and distributed tracing using Rust tracing, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch and/or AWS X-Ray.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration, API/contract and component tests.
• Maintain code quality using Cargo, rustfmt, Clippy and automated CI/CD quality gates.
• Troubleshoot application issues related to latency, CPU, memory, I/O, asynchronous contention and network performance.
• Analyze and improve application performance using tools such as Criterion.rs, flamegraphs, perf and APM platforms.
• Design resilient services using timeouts, retries, exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breakers, idempotency and failure isolation.
• Build scalable and highly available services using stateless architecture, asynchronous processing and appropriate AWS scaling mechanisms.
• Participate in production support, incident analysis, RCA and performance optimization.
• Follow secure coding practices and contribute to security reviews, vulnerability remediation and dependency governance.
• Collaborate with Architecture, QA, DevOps/SRE, Cybersecurity, Product and Operations teams.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, release readiness and technical mentoring.

Required Experience :

• 5 years of software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on production experience with Rust.
• Strong backend/systems programming fundamentals.
• Experience developing cloud-native microservices and APIs.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and distributed systems.
• Good understanding of software testing, observability, performance and secure development practices.