Fortanix

Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Rust)

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15 days ago
Eindhoven, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build backend services in Rust, including REST APIs, data models, database schemas, and service-to-service integrations.
  • Research unfamiliar APIs, SDKs, cloud services, and enterprise technologies to recommend integration approaches.
  • Own technical design and architectural decisions for new capabilities, with attention to scalability, performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.
  • Take features through implementation, testing, deployment, production validation, and ongoing support.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across application, integration, database, and infrastructure layers.
  • Partner with Product Management and engineering teams to refine requirements and evaluate technical trade-offs.
  • Support customers and internal teams with complex technical issues and collaborate with a globally distributed engineering team.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including significant backend development experience.
  • Strong hands-on programming experience in Rust, C++, or Go; production Rust experience is preferred.
  • Experience designing and building production backend services and REST APIs.
  • Experience designing database schemas and data models and working with application data-access layers.
  • Experience integrating third-party APIs, SDKs, cloud services, or enterprise platforms.
  • Ability to research ambiguous technical problems and turn findings into technical designs and implementation plans.
  • Experience diagnosing performance, scalability, and complex multi-component production issues.
  • Experience owning software through design, implementation, testing, deployment, production validation, and ongoing support.
  • Ability to work effectively with Product Management and engineering teams in a distributed environment.
  • Helpful experience includes Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native deployments, AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Alibaba Cloud, cybersecurity, cryptography, key management, certificate management, observability products, and high-growth product environments.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package.
  • 40 hours of Volunteer Time Off per year.
  • Hybrid workplace in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
  • Friendly, collaborative work environment at a globally distributed company.
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