Senior Rust Platform Engineer

The posting, as webAI wrote it

About Us

webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI. We recognize the evolving demands of a data-driven society for scalability and flexibility, and we firmly believe that the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge, bringing computation closer to the source of data generation. Our mission is to build a future where a company's valuable data and intellectual property remain entirely private, enabling the deployment of large-scale AI models directly on standard consumer hardware without compromising the information embedded within those models. We are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of our users, empowering enterprises with AI that understands their unique business. We are a team driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility, and we seek individuals who resonate with these core values and are passionate about shaping the next generation of AI.

ABOUT THE ROLE

webAI is seeking a Senior Platform Rust Engineer to build the core software platform that supports our enterprise and consumer products.

You will design and implement reusable platform capabilities and expose them through stable APIs and SDKs. Your work will span systems architecture, backend development, automated delivery, documentation, and developer experience.

This role is suited to an engineer who can move between low-level technical concerns and clear, practical interfaces for other developers. You will own complex work from design through release while helping shape the boundaries and evolution of the webAI platform.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and build reliable platform capabilities shared across webAI products.
• Develop backend and systems software with a focus on performance, security, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Create clear, stable APIs and SDKs for internal and external developers.
• Own features from architecture and implementation through testing, packaging, release, and production support.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for multi-platform builds, automated testing, artifact publishing, and releases.
• Establish sound practices for API evolution, versioning, compatibility, and migration.
• Write documentation, examples, and reference implementations alongside the APIs they explain.
• Diagnose performance, concurrency, reliability, and integration problems across complex systems.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to turn product needs into reusable platform capabilities.
• Improve developer tooling and workflows as the platform and SDK ecosystem grow.

REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience.
• Strong experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, client libraries, or developer-facing platform interfaces.
• Strong systems-engineering skills, including experience w

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o the success of our clients.

• Tenacity - Persisting in the face of challenges and setbacks, continually striving for excellence and improvement.
• Humility - Maintaining a respectful and learning-oriented mindset, acknowledging the strengths and contributions of others.

Benefits

We strive to provide competitive benefits to all employees. The benefits listed in this posting generally apply to U.S.-based employees. For employees hired outside the United States, benefits may vary based on local law, country-specific requirements, and the employment platform or entity through which the employee is hired.

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
• Including a high-deductible HSA option with company contribution
• 401k match (US-based only)
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Parental leave for eligible employees
• Continuing education support
• Basic, company-paid life insurance
• Supplemental life insurance
• Company-paid short and long term disability
• Free parking for in-office employees

webAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, it is the policy of webAI to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works.