Rust Backend Engineer

Rust Backend Engineer

Xantly Remote (India) 12 to 18 LPA + equity

About Xantly

Xantly is an AI infrastructure company. Our platform sits between AI applications and the models they run on, routing each request intelligently, caching repetitive traffic, and cutting model costs by up to 80% with a single line of code. Our product is live and serving production traffic for customers today.

We are an early-stage, venture-backed team building infrastructure for the next generation of AI agents.

The role

We are looking for a Rust Backend Engineer to help build and scale our core platform. You will work on high-throughput backend services, data infrastructure, and cloud systems that process AI workloads at scale.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain backend services in Rust

Improve performance, throughput, and reliability of production systems

Work with distributed data stores including PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse

Build and maintain integrations with major cloud AI services

Contribute to observability, monitoring, and alerting

Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines

Participate in code review and technical design discussions

Required qualifications

Strong proficiency in Rust for backend development

3+ years of professional backend engineering experience

Experience building AI infrastructure, such as model serving, inference pipelines, routing, or orchestration systems

Proven experience designing and scaling high-throughput distributed systems

Production experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse

Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure

Proficiency with Git and GitHub, and experience with CI/CD pipelines

Strong understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance optimization

Preferred qualifications

Experience with async Rust (Tokio, Axum, Tower)

Familiarity with observability tooling such as OpenTelemetry and Prometheus

Experience with Docker and containerized deployments

Exposure to gRPC, Kafka, or event-driven architectures

Experience with ONNX or on-device model inference

Open-source contributions

Compensation and benefits

12 to 18 LPA, based on experience

Equity in the company, vesting over four years with a one-year cliff

Fully remote within India

Performance and compensation review at 3 and 6 months

Direct ownership of core systems and high impact from day one

How to apply

Send your resume and a brief note on a backend system you have built where performance or scale was a key requirement.

Compensation: 1,200,[hidden],800,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Flexible schedule

Internet reimbursement

Paid sick time

Paid time off

Work from home

Work Location: Remote .