Contract Systems Engineer (Rust)

As a Distributed Systems Engineer, you'll help design and implement core infrastructure components, build and optimise binary protocols, and work on performance-critical parts of the system.

Requirements

• Strong experience with low-level languages (C/C++/Rust preferred)
• Experience with low-level OS interfaces (file I/O, synchronisation, memory mapping)
• Ability to reason about memory: stack vs heap, allocation costs, fragmentation, paging behaviour
• Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (consistency, replication, durability, fault tolerance)
• Experience with binary formats and on-disk data layout
• Strong interest in database internals (storage engines, indexing, logging, MVCC, etc.)
• Comfortable with TDD and high-quality engineering practices
• Experienced with agentic coding and context engineering; treats AI tooling as a professional workflow, not a novelty
• Strong problem-solving ability and deep system-level reasoning

Benefits

• Flexible working around core hours
• Equal-opportunity employer with a diverse work environment