Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (Rust) | High-Performance Backend Systems | Sydney (Hybrid)

About the opportunity

Join an established software company building the backend systems behind an enterprise data platform used across asset-intensive industries like energy, utilities, mining, and manufacturing. This is a systems engineering role at heart, memory management, concurrency, and performance at genuine production scale, in a business with an international footprint and a long track record in enterprise software.


The role

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems in Rust and Java
• Build scalable, reliable asynchronous systems using modern concurrency patterns
• Optimise throughput, latency, memory usage, and I/O for large-scale processing workloads
• Develop robust APIs and reusable internal libraries and components
• Contribute to architecture discussions and technical decision-making, working across distributed global teams

What you'll bring

• 5+ years of software engineering experience in Java, plus 2+ years of hands-on production Rust
• Strong async Rust experience (Tokio or similar)
• Deep understanding of Rust memory ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, and buffer management
• Experience shipping production-grade distributed or high-performance backend systems
• Ability to work independently through technically ambiguous problems

Desirable: gRPC in Rust, high-throughput streaming architectures, cloud data lake experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), and exposure to data governance or rules-engine platforms.


What's on offer

• $165,000 to $180,000 plus super
• Flexible hybrid working model
• Ongoing learning and career development
• Generous paid time off

Ready to build high-performance systems at real scale? Apply now or reach out for a confidential conversation.