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Lead Rust Engineer - Cross-Platform Edge Peer Runtime

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Lead engineer building Zyte's cross-platform Rust peer runtime for the Edge residential network across Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS. Port the peer to mobile platforms and integrate native network stacks via FFI while gathering hardware signals and fleet metrics. Requires 5+ years of production Rust, cross-platform shipping experience, FFI/C++ skills, and deep TCP/TLS/HTTP knowledge.

Key Highlights
Lead cross-platform Rust peer runtime across Windows, Android, Linux, macOS
Port peer to Android via NDK/JNI with mobile network and battery handling
Integrate Chromium network stack (Cronet) and HTTP clients via FFI
Build per-device fleet metrics and observability
5+ years production Rust with cross-platform and FFI experience
Key Responsibilities
Build and own the cross-platform Rust peer binary across Windows, Android, Linux, and macOS
Port the peer to Android using NDK/JNI, handling foreground services, battery optimizations, and mobile network quirks
Integrate Chromium network stack (Cronet) and browserless HTTP clients via FFI
Gather hardware and OS reconnaissance and map TCP/TLS/HTTP fingerprints
Build per-device metrics for uptime, drop-off rates, bandwidth, and success rates
Add peer-level support for captcha solving and browser rendering with secure isolation
Participate in on-call rotation and post-mortems
Author RFDs and review architectural designs
Technical Skills Required
Rust FFI Networking
Benefits & Perks
Flexible remote work
Conference attendance
Cutting-edge open source technologies
Nice to Have
Residential network experience
Browser internals knowledge
Distributed systems background
Web scraping experience
Open source contributions

Job Description

Why Join Zyte?

At Zyte, we don't just extract web data—we tackle some of the internet's trickiest data collection challenges at a massive scale. We're a globally distributed team of bold, curious problem-solvers dedicated to delivering clean, reliable web data wherever it's needed.

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