Job Search

Senior Rust Engineer | Version Control Systems | Open Source Infrastructure

We are looking for an experienced Rust Engineer to join a high-impact engineering initiative focused on the future of developer tooling, large-scale version control systems, and AI-assisted software development.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to open-source technologies that are enabling next-generation development workflows across large repositories, distributed teams, and automated agent-based environments.

You will work on challenging systems-level engineering problems spanning source control, distributed systems, cloud-backed repositories, virtual file systems, performance optimisation, and developer experience.

What You'll Be Working On

Extending and enhancing the version control ecosystemContributing to gitoxide and Git compatibility initiativesBuilding cloud-native repository backends designed for enterprise-scale developmentDeveloping high-performance storage, caching, and virtual filesystem solutionsImproving support for large repositories and distributed workflowsDesigning extensibility frameworks, APIs, and plugin architecturesEnhancing developer tooling for AI-assisted and automated software engineering workflowsCollaborating directly with open-source maintainers and upstream communities

What We're Looking For

Essential

Strong commercial experience with RustDeep understanding of Git and modern version control conceptsExperience building developer tools, infrastructure platforms, SDKs, CLIs, or systems softwareStrong knowledge of software architecture and distributed systemsExperience contributing to open-source projectsTrack record of delivering high-quality production software

Highly Desirable

Experience with Git internals, source control systems, or repository storage technologiesContributions to projects such as Git, gitoxide, JGit, Mercurial, or similar toolingKnowledge of packfiles, commit graphs, refs, reftables, partial clone, or repository performance optimisationExperience with storage engines, filesystems, caching layers, or large-scale infrastructureFamiliarity with gRPC, distributed services, authentication systems, and cloud platformsOpen-source maintainer experience or a strong public GitHub profile

We are especially interested in engineers who actively contribute to open-source communities and enjoy working on technically demanding problems that have a broad impact across the software engineering ecosystem.

Why Join?

Work on cutting-edge developer infrastructureContribute directly to widely-used open-source projectsHelp shape the future of AI-enabled software developmentSolve complex technical challenges at the intersection of version control, cloud infrastructure, and developer productivityCollaborate with recognised experts in the open-source ecosystem

If you have a passion for Rust, developer tooling, distributed systems, and open-source software, we'd love to hear from you

GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Read less