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What this role is
F5 is hiring a Senior Rust Developer to build a high-performance proxy solution with both open-source and proprietary components, focusing on systems-level architecture, networking, and async runtime optimization. This role suits experienced systems programmers who excel at low-level performance tuning and want to work on infrastructure technology at scale.
Our summary, not F5’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
What they ask for
Required
- Extensive experience in Rust
- Strong background in systems programming and asynchronous runtimes
- Proven expertise in networking protocols
- Low-level performance optimization experience
- Concurrency expertise
- Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
Nice to have
- Thread-per-core design experience
- Live reconfiguration experience
- Stream processing experience
- Familiarity with Apache Arrow and DataFusion
- Background in hardware acceleration techniques including SIMD and modern CPU architectures
- Contributions to Rust-based open-source projects