Rust Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 19, 2026.
Job Role : Rust Engineer - AWS & Microservices
Experience : 5+ Years
Location : Pune
Key Responsibilities :
- Design, develop and maintain scalable microservices and APIs using Rust.
- Build REST and gRPC services using frameworks such as Tokio, Axum, Actix Web or equivalent.
- Develop robust domain logic, API validation, error handling, persistence, caching and messaging components.
- Implement asynchronous and concurrent applications using Rust async/await and Tokio.
- Integrate Rust applications with AWS services including S3, SQS, SNS, EventBridge, DynamoDB, RDS/Aurora and Secrets Manager.
- Develop container-ready applications suitable for AWS EKS, ECS and Fargate environments.
- Implement application health checks, readiness checks, graceful shutdown and production-ready configuration management.
- Develop structured logging, metrics and distributed tracing using Rust tracing, OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch and/or AWS X-Ray.
- Write comprehensive unit, integration, API/contract and component tests.
- Maintain code quality using Cargo, rustfmt, Clippy and automated CI/CD quality gates.
- Troubleshoot application issues related to latency, CPU, memory, I/O, asynchronous contention and network performance.
- Analyze and improve application performance using tools such as Criterion.rs, flamegraphs, perf and APM platforms.
- Design resilient services using timeouts, retries, exponential backoff, jitter, circuit breakers, idempotency and failure isolation.
- Build scalable and highly available services using stateless architecture, asynchronous processing and appropriate AWS scaling mechanisms.
- Participate in production support, incident analysis, RCA and performance optimization.
- Follow secure coding practices and contribute to security reviews, vulnerability remediation and dependency governance.
- Collaborate with Architecture, QA, DevOps/SRE, Cybersecurity, Product and Operations teams.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, release readiness and technical mentoring.
Required Experience :
- 5+ years of software engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on production experience with Rust.
- Strong backend/systems programming fundamentals.
- Experience developing cloud-native microservices and APIs.
- Hands-on experience with AWS cloud services.
- Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and distributed systems.
- Good understanding of software testing, observability, performance and secure development practices.
Skills
Rust, AWS, Microservices Architecture, SQS, DynamoDB, Distributed Systems