Rust System Engineer

Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.

Job Overview: We are seeking a high-caliber Rust Systems Engineer to design, build, and optimize high-throughput, low-latency backend systems and infrastructure. In this role, you will go beyond web APIs—tackling low-level performance bottlenecks, complex state management, parallel compute algorithms, and concurrent data processing pipelines. If you thrive on deterministic memory management, zero-cost abstractions, and writing safe, blazingly fast concurrent systems, this role is for you.

Key

High-Performance Architecture: Design and implement zero-cost, high-throughput, low-latency engine components and data processing pipelines in Rust. Concurrent & Thread-Safe Systems: Build thread-safe, lock-free, or fine-grained locked data structures and state machines capable of scaling across multi-core architectures without race conditions. Priority & Real-Time Threading: Design custom thread pools, task sch