Rust Engineer (SPE)

This is a remote position.

Shuru is an AI-native engineering services company building products with leading startups, enterprises, and well-funded scale-ups across India, Southeast Asia, the UAE, and global markets. Our engineers work in small, dedicated squads, ship in weekly cycles, and use AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot as a standard part of how we build. We hire for fundamentals, give engineers real ownership, and back them with a culture that respects deep work.

Day to Day Responsibilities

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable Rust code.

Build and maintain APIs and microservices.

Integrate new services with existing systems and platforms.

Optimize performance across distributed architectures.

Collaborate with product managers, architects, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.

Participate in code reviews and help refine engineering standards and best practices.

Contribute to architectural discussions and technical decision-making.

Troubleshoot and resolve production issues.

Improve observability, monitoring, and internal engineering tools.

Stay current with developments, best practices, and advancements in the Rust ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Rust programming, including ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and asynchronous programming (e.g., Tokio, async/await).
  
• Experience building backend services and APIs, ideally using Rust-based frameworks (Actix, Axum, Rocket) and microservice architectures.
  
• Solid understanding of systems programming concepts such as memory management, concurrency, multithreading, and performance optimization.
  
• Hands-on experience with databases and data storage (SQL/NoSQL, schema design, query optimization) and messaging/streaming systems is advantageous.
  
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker), and orchestration tools (Kubernetes) for deploying and operating services.
  
• Knowledge of modern software development practices, including Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability tooling.
  
• Ability to work closely with product, data, and AI teams to integrate Rust services into broader systems and to translate requirements into technical designs.
  
• Strong problem-solving skills, clear written and verbal communication
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
  
• Work with experienced product and engineering leaders.
  
• Flexible and remote-friendly work culture.
  
• Opportunities for learning, mentorship, and career growth.
  
• A chance to make a real impact across diverse, innovative projects.