# Rust Skill · Programming Languages Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/rust Rust is a systems programming language developed originally at Mozilla, designed to provide memory safety and thread safety without a garbage collector through its ownership and borrow-checking model. It is used by developers for performance-critical applications such as operating systems, browsers, game engines, and web backends where C/C++-level speed is needed with fewer memory bugs. It has consistently ranked as one of the most loved languages in developer surveys and is increasingly used at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. ## Rust in the job market - Open roles: 171 - Employers hiring: 55 - Median stated pay: $230,000 (middle half $193,000 – $278,000), from 143 of 171 open roles — the 84% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it. - Last checked: September 13, 2026 ## Asked for alongside Rust Measured from the 171 open roles that name Rust, not from a curated list. - [Python](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/python) — 108 roles (63.2%) - [Go](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/go) — 103 roles (60.2%) - [C++](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/c-2) — 75 roles (43.9%) - [Kubernetes](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kubernetes) — 72 roles (42.1%) - [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-web-services-aws) — 51 roles (29.8%) - [Java](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/java) — 47 roles (27.5%) - [Linux](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/linux) — 30 roles (17.5%) - [Microsoft Azure](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/microsoft-azure) — 28 roles (16.4%) ## Seniority of these roles - Mid: 28 (18%) - Senior: 93 (58%) - Lead / Staff / Principal: 38 (24%) - Management: 1 (1%) From 160 roles whose posting states a level. ## Where Rust roles are - [San Francisco, CA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/san-francisco-ca) — 41 - [New York, NY](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-york-ny) — 34 - [Long Beach, CA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/long-beach-ca) — 6 - [Chantilly, VA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/chantilly-va) — 4 - [Houston, TX](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/houston-tx) — 3 - [Kent, WA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/kent-wa) — 3 Among the 118 of 171 open roles we could place on a map. ## Roles that use Rust - [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) — 107 - [Engineering Manager](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/engineering-manager) — 8 - [Solutions Architect](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/solutions-architect) — 4 - [Site Reliability Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/site-reliability-engineer) — 3 - [Systems Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/systems-engineer) — 3 - [Aerospace Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/aerospace-engineer) — 2 ## Employers hiring for Rust - [Menlo Ventures Portfolio](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/menlo-ventures-portfolio) — 28 open roles - [Crusoe](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crusoe) — 24 open roles - [Deepgram](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/deepgram) — 15 open roles - [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia) — 10 open roles - [CrowdStrike](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crowdstrike) — 7 open roles - [Relativity Space](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/relativity-space) — 6 open roles Related skills: [C++](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/c-2), [Go](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/go), [D](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/d), [Zig](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/zig), [Other Programming Languages](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/other-programming-languages), [System Programming](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/system-programming), [Embedded Software](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/embedded-software), [Carbon Language](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/carbon-language), [WebAssembly (Wasm)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/webassembly-wasm), [Zig Programming](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/zig-programming), [C and C++](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/c-and-c), [Actix](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/actix) ## Open roles requiring Rust (171) - [Staff Software Engineer, Networking](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/2434efc4-dfa9-4a52-89ff-663bf927d8a1/application) at [Crusoe](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crusoe) — San Francisco, CA, $185,000 – $224,000 (listed on Crusoe's own careers site) - [Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/c277b009-0c9c-4ae7-a72b-56aaad0d985c/application) at [Patreon](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/patreon) — Full-time, San Francisco, CA · Remote, $257,500 – $386,000 (listed on Patreon's own careers site) - [Software Development Engineer II, Search](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Mapbox/cdc7cf98-5ec0-4a0b-a78f-bb3eb0e8b40f/application) at [Mapbox](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/mapbox) — Mapbox US, $160,650 – $217,350 (listed on Mapbox's own careers site) - [Global Security Engineer Offensive Operations (Remote or Onsite)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/f7265a94-6de0-46f3-b26d-5360a508553b/global-security-engineer-offensive-operations-remote-or-onsite-at-crane-co) at [Crane Co.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crane-co) — Stamford, CT · Remote - [Platform Engineering Expert - SAP's Big Data Fabric Services (BDFS)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/b9de95fe-2d55-41a3-8074-bf63c40b953a/platform-engineering-expert-sap-s-big-data-fabric-services-bdfs-at-sap) at [SAP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sap) — Full-time, São Leopoldo, BR, 93022-718 - [Senior Software Engineer - AI Agents](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/9ff1f8da-3e36-4c38-aa2b-c375ad1eb5d3/senior-software-engineer-ai-agents-at-visa-inc) at [Visa Inc.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/visa-inc) — Full-time, $123,000 – $190,900 - [Lead Development Engineer -AI-Assisted Engineering](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/a0944a9d-8760-47df-9e37-ec0203e361c6/lead-development-engineer-ai-assisted-engineering-at-tyson-foods) at [Tyson Foods](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/tyson-foods) — Springdale, AR - [Senior Cybersecurity Engineer (US Federal)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/dad3e609-d096-4cf4-ba73-dd4231a3978e/senior-cybersecurity-engineer-us-federal-at-workday) at [Workday](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/workday) — Reston, VA, $159,600 – $239,400 - [Senior Software Engineer, CUDA C++ Core Libraries](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/d1a26576-7b0e-48a9-bbf6-ef295140ff9f/senior-software-engineer-cuda-c-core-libraries-at-nvidia) at [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia) — $184,000 – $287,500 - [Software Development Engineer - C++](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/8f789003-3a65-4328-897a-9ad7e03fa83e/software-development-engineer-c-at-lseg) at [LSEG](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lseg) — Saint Louis, MO All 171 open roles: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs?skills=d9acec0c-8bff-46a3-ae6c-e75b06b07071