Description

We are looking for a strong technical leader who will lead the development of a high-load

reverse proxy server in Rust. This is a key role in the infrastructure: you will design the

system architecture that will handle millions of requests and build a team of

engineers around you to implement it.

Responsibilities

Your tasks:

• architecture and development: Designing the core of a high-load proxy server from scratch, selecting optimal technologies, and writing the most critical code in Rust
• leadership and mentorship: You will be the "Senior Engineer" in the team
• conduct code reviews, train colleagues, help them grow, implement development best practices
• reliability and performance: Ensuring fault tolerance, low latency, and efficient resource consumption
• investigating incidents and bottlenecks
• infrastructure and processes: Organizing CI/CD processes for seamless delivery of updates, setting up monitoring, working with Kubernetes and DevOps practices
• product responsibility: Participation in planning, timeline estimation, analysis
• of requirements and making key technical decisions.

Requirements

We expect you to have:

• commercial Rust development experience of at least 3 years (Senior/Expert level)
• overall commercial software development experience — at least 6 years
• deep understanding of asynchronous programming in Rust: proficient with Tokio
• experience in developing network services: knowledge of Hyper, Pingora (or experience creating similar solutions) and understanding of the internal workings of HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2
• networking expertise: deep knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, networking principles, experience in fine-tuning the Linux network stack
• backend technologies: experience with Protobuf and gRPC, message brokers
• (Kafka/RabbitMQ/NATS)
• infrastructure: solid knowledge of Linux (configuration, debugging), experience with Kubernetes (developing operators, writing manifests), understanding of DevOps culture and CI/CD (GitLab CI / GitHub Actions)
• higher technical education (welcomed, but not a strict requirement if strong experience is present)

Will be a big plus:

• experience in technically leading a small team (2–5 people), even informally (team leadership or mentorship)
• experience in designing distributed systems and microservice architecture
• systems thinking: the ability to see the product as a whole, make balanced architectural decisions, and solve non-trivial engineering problems.

Conditions

Working at SberTech means:

• hybrid work format
• annual bonus and annual salary review
• accredited IT company status
• extended health insurance from day one and preferential family insurance
• Sber's corporate university, internal educational platform, participation in IT conferences
• 90 days of remote work from any region of the Russian Federation
• preferential mortgage from Sber, SberPrime+ subscription, discounts from partners and services of the group of companies.