Principal Rust Engineer

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🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Progress

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1981

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 1995-01

Software • Artificial Intelligence • Infrastructure Management

Progress is a software company that offers a wide range of products and services aimed at improving digital experiences, data management, and infrastructure management. The company provides AI-powered applications across its platforms, enabling businesses to develop and manage these applications efficiently. Progress offers solutions such as the Progress Data Platform for data, AI, and analytics projects, and Sitefinity for digital content and experience management. Additionally, Progress provides infrastructure management products to help streamline network and application management, as well as data connectivity tools under the DataDirect brand. The acquisition of ShareFile has expanded Progress's capabilities in secure file transfer and collaboration. With a strong focus on artificial intelligence, Progress works to deliver innovative solutions for its customers and partners across various industries.

📋 Description

• Own the architecture and roadmap of the distributed search and indexing engine written in Rust • Design and implement vector, full-text and graph indexes, including HNSW, quantization, multi-vector and Tantivy • Develop the query and filtering layer on top of the indexes • Evolve how indexes are built, merged, sharded and replicated on object storage, PostgreSQL and NATS • Lead large migrations and performance work based on profiling and benchmarks without customer downtime • Contribute to Python services, SDKs and PyO3 bindings while keeping public APIs stable • Keep the system observable, reliable and secure across Kubernetes deployments and CI/CD • Write design proposals, review code, mentor senior engineers and represent the project in the open-source community • Collaborate with ML, product and platform teams

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience building and running high-performance production systems, including technical leadership • Expert Rust: async (Tokio), concurrency, memory-mapped I/O, profiling and low-level optimization (e.g. SIMD) • Deep knowledge of search engine internals: approximate nearest neighbour search, vector quantization, inverted indexes and ranking • Experience designing distributed data systems: storage engines, sharding, replication and consistency trade-offs • Solid experience with PostgreSQL, object storage (S3, GCS, Azure) and messaging (NATS JetStream or Kafka) • Strong Python, ideally with PyO3, asyncio, FastAPI and Pydantic • Experience running services on Kubernetes with observability and CI/CD, ideally GitHub Actions • Ability to set technical direction and deliver it incrementally • Clear written and verbal communication in English, including design documents • Comfortable owning critical production systems and making decisions under pressure • Willing to mentor others and comfortable in a remote-first, global team

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous remuneration package • Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrollment • 23 vacation days annually • Birthday day off • Community service time off • International Women's Day — March 8 is an official holiday for all employees • Life and Medical Insurance

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