Job Overview
Location
United States
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Backend Engineer
Date Posted
March 28, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • Senior Rust Engineer role at NextLink Labs LLC, a fast-growing technology firm specializing in building, scaling, and securing software applications for clients across industries. This position is critical to delivering secure, scalable backend systems that enable client success through expert consulting and custom software development.
- • Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using Rust, with ownership over architecture and implementation of gRPC services, data access layers, and observability tooling for enterprise clients.
- • Collaborate within an agile, remote-first team to architect modular solutions using Clean Architecture, CQRS, event sourcing, and actor-based concurrency patterns across workspace crates (model, domain, data, service).
- • Build and optimize data access layers for relational (e.g., PostgreSQL), time-series (e.g., TimescaleDB), and graph (e.g., Neo4j) databases, ensuring performance and reliability at scale.
- • Engage in daily stand-ups, weekly agile meetings, code reviews, and direct client communication to demonstrate progress, gather feedback, and align technical delivery with business needs.
- • Contribute to system observability and monitoring using OpenTelemetry and Tracing, ensuring production systems are measurable, debuggable, and maintainable.
- • NextLink Labs is a remote-first, inclusive organization committed to professional growth and work-life balance, with team members distributed across the United States.
- • The company values clarity, ownership, and outcomes, fostering an environment where engineers take end-to-end responsibility for technical solutions and client impact.
- • This role offers the opportunity to work on diverse, high-impact client engagements, deepening expertise in distributed systems while shaping architecture and driving innovation in Rust-based backend development.
- • Engineers will grow their mastery of modern Rust ecosystem tools, including async runtimes, gRPC, and cloud-native deployment practices, while contributing to secure, scalable systems used in production.
🎯 Requirements
- • 5+ years of experience building backend services, with at least 2-3 years of production experience in Rust
- • Strong understanding of Clean Architecture, CQRS, Event Sourcing, and actor-based concurrency patterns
- • Experience designing and implementing gRPC APIs; familiarity with Tonic is a plus
- • Proficiency with relational, time-series, and graph databases; experience with TimescaleDB and Neo4j preferred
- • Strong testing practices including unit and integration testing; familiarity with BDD frameworks like Cucumber is a plus
- • Understanding of security best practices including JWT-based authentication and authorization
- • Understanding of fundamental design principles behind scalable and distributed systems
🏖️ Benefits
- • Competitive compensation range of USD $130,000 — $180,000 annually, plus bonus structure
- • Healthcare coverage (Medical, Dental, and Vision) and 401k retirement plan
- • Remote-first culture with flexible work schedule and autonomy to do your best work
- • Paid parental leave and responsibility/autonomy at a growing company
- • Opportunity to build something big and exciting in a technical consulting firm that values clarity, ownership, and outcomes
Skills & Technologies
About NextLink Labs LLC
NextLink Labs is a Pittsburgh-based DevOps and software engineering consultancy founded in 2015. The company specializes in cloud architecture, Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and security for enterprises adopting modern software delivery practices. It provides engineering staff augmentation, platform assessments, and hands-on training to accelerate digital transformation. Clients include Fortune 500 firms, healthcare organizations, and high-growth startups across North America. The firm emphasizes pragmatic, vendor-agnostic solutions and knowledge transfer to internal teams, enabling scalable, resilient infrastructure and faster release cycles.
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