Cloudflare • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$215k - $295k USD
Design and implement zero-copy L4/L7 proxy architecture using Rust, Pingora, Tokio, XDP/eBPF, and Quiche across 330+ global edge cities.
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Remote Rust Networking, Linux Kernel & eBPF Jobs
Explore top-paying remote Rust roles in zero-copy L4/L7 proxies (Pingora/Tokio), Linux kernel eBPF/XDP dataplanes, QUIC protocols, and Firecracker/KVM hypervisors.
Oxide Computer Company • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$275k - $275k USD
Co-design hardware and software in Rust ($275,000 flat base + equity): from our microcontroller OS (Hubris) and VMM hypervisor (Propolis) to the rack-scale Omicron control plane.
AWS (Serverless Compute) • 📍 US / EU Remote •
$195k - $275k USD
Hack on Firecracker and rust-vmm: the minimalist Rust KVM virtual machine monitor powering AWS Lambda, Fargate, and AI agent sandboxes.
Discord • 📍 US Remote •
$200k - $270k USD
Scale Discord's global Rust media relay servers and end-to-end encrypted (DAVE MLS) voice/video routing infrastructure handling terabits of UDP traffic.
Fly.io • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$175k - $230k USD
Work on `fly-proxy` and `corrosion` in Rust: routing global Anycast TCP/QUIC traffic over an encrypted WireGuard mesh to wake Firecracker microVMs on demand.
Grafana Labs (Beyla / Profiling) • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$175k - $235k USD
Write kernel-space eBPF programs and user-space profilers in Rust using Aya for zero-instrumentation continuous CPU/GPU profiling and network tracing.
Buoyant (Linkerd Creators) • 📍 US / EU Remote •
$185k - $245k USD
Lead development on `linkerd2-proxy`--the ultra-lightweight, memory-safe micro-proxy written in Rust (Tokio, Tower, Hyper, rustls) powering Kubernetes clusters.
Tailscale • 📍 US / Canada / Remote •
$185k - $245k USD
Optimize multi-gigabit encrypted overlay networking, UDP segmentation offload (GSO/GRO), and embedded Rust networking components.
Anduril Industries • 📍 US (Hybrid / Remote Eligible) •
$195k - $270k USD
Build resilient, contested-network peer-to-peer mesh protocols and onboard autonomous flight/sensor software in deterministic Rust for Lattice.
Number 0 (Iroh) • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$165k - $215k USD
Build Iroh and Quinn (the pure-Rust QUIC implementation): direct dial-by-public-key P2P networking with hole punching and BLAKE3 verified streaming.
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