Senior Rust Platform Engineer
webAI is an Austin-based sovereign AI company developing local-first, specialized AI systems that organizations can build, deploy, and operate on infrastructure they own.
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About webAI
webAI provides collaborative intelligence software centered on the webAI App, specialized Personas, and its Intelligence Delivery Network. Its platform is designed to keep intelligence close to organizational data and hardware, support private and specialized models, and enable teams to build, share, and improve AI without relying exclusively on centralized cloud systems.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design and build reliable platform capabilities for products. You will develop backend and systems software, create stable APIs and SDKs, own features through release and production support, improve CI/CD pipelines, manage API evolution and compatibility, write documentation and examples, diagnose complex system issues, and improve developer tooling.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant software engineering experience
- Experience designing and maintaining APIs, SDKs, client libraries, or developer-facing platform interfaces
- Systems-engineering experience with concurrency, process boundaries, resource management, failure modes, and performance
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation
- Experience packaging, versioning, and distributing production software
- Ability to write maintainable code, effective tests, technical documentation, and examples
- Experience diagnosing complex integration, reliability, and performance problems
- Ability to take complex or ambiguous requirements through design, implementation, and release
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable shared platform capabilities
- Develop backend and systems software with a focus on performance, security, maintainability, and operational reliability
- Create stable APIs and SDKs for developers
- Own features from architecture through testing, packaging, release, and production support
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, artifact publishing, and releases
- Establish API evolution, versioning, compatibility, and migration practices
- Write technical documentation, examples, and reference implementations
- Diagnose performance, concurrency, reliability, and integration problems
- Translate product needs into reusable platform capabilities
- Improve developer tooling and workflows
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) match
- $200/month health and wellness stipend
- $400/year continuing education credit
- $500/year Function Health subscription for US-based employees
- Free parking for in-office employees
- Unlimited approved PTO
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Supplemental life insurance