Senior Rust Engineer

Location: Remote (US / EU time zones)

Overview

We’re hiring a Senior Rust Engineer to work across the Signet stack: node execution, SDKs, simulation tooling, and the networking layers that glue everything together. You should be comfortable taking research prototypes to production and shipping high-quality, high-performance Rust code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Rust systems powering the Signet rollup and related infrastructure.
• Implement memory-safe, high-performance code for networking, execution, and consensus-adjacent components.
• Write tests, fuzzers, and simulations to validate complex system behavior.
• Profile and optimize at the protocol and infrastructure layers.
• Collaborate with cryptography, security, and DevOps teams to integrate low-level components.

Required

• 5+ years professional software engineering experience.
• 3+ years hands-on Rust experience with production systems.
• Strong background in distributed systems, P2P networking, or consensus algorithms.
• Experience with asynchronous runtimes, concurrency, and low-level performance tradeoffs.
• Clear communication and ability to work across research and product teams.

Nice to have

• Contributions to open-source Rust projects.
• Familiarity with Ethereum, rollups, or other blockchain protocols.
• Systems programming experience in Go/C/C++.

What we offer

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
• Small, focused team. Experienced systems engineers.
• Work on core rollup infrastructure for Ethereum.

How to apply

Send your resume to jobs@init4.technology.

Equal opportunity & privacy

We are an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and will consider all qualified candidates. Submitted application materials will be handled in accordance with applicable privacy laws and retained only for a limited time.