Software Engineer, Technical Referent - RUST

What you'll be doing:

• Collaborate with technology leaders and product teams to define the vision and strategic roadmap for Rust adoption within dLocal.
• Lead the technical architecture and design of foundational Rust-based projects, ensuring they are scalable, performant, and set the standard for future development.
• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, idiomatic Rust applications and systems that will serve as the blueprint for our core high-performance services.
• Establish the foundational Rust stack, development patterns, CI/CD pipelines, and best practices for the entire organization.
• Drive application performance optimization by identifying and solving bottlenecks, with a focus on CPU/memory efficiency and safe concurrency.
• Troubleshoot complex design flaws and system-level issues to guarantee the stability and resilience of our most critical services.
• Champion a culture of quality and security through rigorous code reviews, providing constructive feedback and ensuring the highest engineering standards.
• Implement robust observability from the ground up based on OpenTelemetry standards to ensure our services have premier monitoring and performance insights.
• Act as the go-to expert for Rust, mentoring other engineers and guiding the technical direction of the practice.

What skills you'll need:

• Minimum of 10 years of professional experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems.
• Proven, hands-on professional experience writing, deploying, and maintaining production services in Rust.
• Deep understanding of systems design principles, memory management, and concurrency patterns.
• Ability to write clean, efficient, and idiomatic Rust code with a strong focus on safety and performance.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS.
• Solid experience with event-driven architecture design.
• Well-versed in the full software development lifecycle and experienced with establishing CI/CD best practices.
• Experience with modern observability practices and tooling adhering to OpenTelemetry standards.
• Excellent ability to solve complex software system issues methodically.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
• A collaborative mindset and leadership skills, with the ability to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.Optional but highly valued:
  
• Professional experience in Go or Java for building large-scale, cloud-native applications is a significant plus.