Senior Rust Engineer

About the Company

InCommon is hiring on behalf of Podifi.

Podifi is a product development company based in Palo Alto that helps startups and enterprises build full-stack applications through lean, AI-augmented teams. Their model blends product, design, and engineering to deliver outcomes—not just output. With their proprietary Generative Agile method, Podifi brings speed, clarity, and reliability to the software development process. Teams are structured for velocity and depth, with AI integrated across workflows to support documentation, coding, and decision-making—while keeping humans in control.

About the Role

We're looking for engineers who think deeply about systems, performance, and correctness. As a Rust Engineer, you'll help us build reliable, low-latency, high-concurrency systems. This is a hands-on role for someone who writes clean code, loves solving hard problems, and values ownership from first principles to production.

If you enjoy squeezing performance out of machines, care about memory safety, and can architect robust systems without bloated abstractions — you'll feel at home here.

What You'll Do

• Design and build production-grade systems using Rust
• Write modular, safe, and performant code for backend services or infrastructure components
• Optimize for latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
• Contribute to design discussions around architecture, protocols, and data flows
• Collaborate with product, infra, and other engineering teams
• Review code, mentor peers, and help shape technical culture

What We Look For

• 3+ years of professional software development experience
• 1+ years of hands-on experience with Rust in production
• Strong understanding of systems programming, memory management, and performance profiling
• Familiarity with concurrency patterns and asynchronous programming (e.g., tokio)
• Solid grasp of networking, data structures, and protocol design
• Experience with gRPC, REST, or custom RPC protocols is a plus

Nice to Have

• Exposure to WebAssembly, embedded systems, or OS-level internals
• Experience with CI/CD, containerization, and cloud-native tooling
• Contributions to open-source Rust projects or visible GitHub portfolio
• Familiarity with other systems languages (e.g., C++, Go, Zig)