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Rust Software Engineer
Reston, Virginia, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Metron
Metron: Employee-owned scientific consulting developing analytics, decision-support, autonomy, and software solutions for national-security customers.
3+ YOEBachelor's degree in a related field, 3+ years of industry experience, production Rust development, backend services, async programming, and ability to obtain an interim security clearance; U.S. citizenship required.
Rust, Axum, Tokio, Java, Python, TypeScript, React
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Rust Software Developer
Arlington or McLean or Chantilly or Beavercreek or San Antonio or Huntsville or Annapolis Junction or El Segundo or Rome or Aurora or Colorado Springs or Lexington
$87k-$198k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen HamiltonNYSE: BAH: Global firm providing management, technology, and engineering consulting services.
3+ YOE3+ years software engineering with Rust, Kubernetes and containerized services, autoscaling strategies, CI/CD implementation, experience with Python or C++, Secret clearance, and Bachelor’s degree.
Rust, Kubernetes, HPA, VPA, cluster autoscalers, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Python, C++, SonarQube, Clippy, cargo-deny, cargo-audit, SysML, DoDAF, UAF
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Rust Software Developer
Arlington, Virginia, United States
$87k-$198k/yr HybridFull Time
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen HamiltonNYSE: BAH: Global firm providing management, technology, and engineering consulting services.
3+ YOE3+ years software engineering with Rust, experience with Kubernetes and autoscaling (HPA/VPA), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Jenkins), Python or C++, Bachelor's degree, and active Secret clearance.
Rust, Kubernetes, HPA, VPA, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Python, C++, SonarQube, Clippy, cargo-deny, cargo-audit, SysML, DoDAF, UAF, GitHub
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Sr. Software Engineer II, Backend (Rust)
Chicago or California or Colorado or Florida or Georgia or Illinois or Indiana or Minnesota or Missouri or Montana or New Jersey or New York or North Carolina or Ohio or Oregon or Pennsylvania or South Carolina or Texas or Utah or Vermont or Virginia or Washington or Wisconsin or United States
$140k-$190k/yr HybridFull Time
NinjaTrader
NinjaTrader: Privately held futures trading platform and brokerage serving retail and professional futures traders.
6+ YOE6+ years of software development experience with substantial production Rust, cloud and containerized service integration expertise, sensitive-data handling, technical leadership, and a computer science or software engineering degree or equivalent experience.
Rust, Tokio, Serde, SQLx, Diesel, Docker, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Codex, Cursor, Claude Code, YAML, JSON, gRPC, Protocol Buffers (protobuf), Statsig
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RUST Software Developer - Multiple Levels ($10K Sign-on) (40866)
Herndon, Virginia, United States
$90k-$220k/yr OnsiteFull Time
L3Harris Technologies
L3Harris TechnologiesNYSE: LHX: Global aerospace and defense technology innovator and manufacturer.
4+ YOEProduction Rust experience, embedded and C/C++ development, bachelor\u0002s degree or equivalent experience, active DoD Secret clearance, ability to travel >30%, SDLC and systems-integration experience.
Rust, C, C++, Python, VxWorks, Linux, Integrity, IBM Rhapsody, MagicDraw, Cameo
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Senior Computer Engineer (76403)
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
$200k-$270k/yr HybridFull Time
Battelle Memorial Institute
Battelle Memorial Institute: Independent non-profit applied science and technology research organization.
8+ YOEActive U.S. citizenship with TS/SCI+polygraph, deep embedded software experience (C/C++), machine learning and data engineering expertise, RTOS and interest in Go or Rust, advanced degree or equivalent with substantial experience.
C, C++, Go, Rust, RTOS
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AI/ML Engineer (Systems Engineer, Sr)
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Redwire
RedwireNYSE: RDW: Public aerospace and defense technology serving civil, commercial, and national-security customers with space and autonomous systems.
1+ YOEU.S. citizen eligible for DoD Secret clearance, 1+ years backend/systems engineering experience, proficiency in Python/C++/Rust, experience with agentic systems, graph data modeling, real‑time pipelines, API design, and secure operations.
Python, C++, Rust, Neo4j, DGraph, ArangoDB, CUDA, REST, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, UDP, TCP, Pub/Sub, CI/CD
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Flight Software Engineer
Chantilly, Virginia, United States
OnsiteFull Time
Elveo
Elveo: Private satellite communications providing direct-to-device connectivity to mobile operators, enterprises, governments, and humanitarian organizations.
Proficiency in C/C++/Rust, Linux, hardware interfaces (CAN, I2C, SPI, RS-422/485), Git and CI/CD, automated testing, BS degree in engineering or equivalent experience, ability to develop and test flight software and telemetry.
C, C++, Rust, Linux, CAN, I2C, SPI, RS-422, RS-485, IPC, Git, CI/CD, Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Protocol Buffers, ZeroMQ, gRPC, systemd
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Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer
Austin or Reston or United States
HybridFull Time
Seekr Technologies
Seekr Technologies: Private American enterprise AI providing explainable, secure AI software and hardware to government and critical-infrastructure customers.
5+ YOE5–8 years building distributed systems or cloud/platform services; production Kubernetes and ML infra experience; strong software engineering in Python and Go/Rust/C++; familiarity with GPU inference, model serving frameworks, and cloud platforms.
Kubernetes, Helm, Argo CD, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Python, Go, Rust, C++, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, Ray Serve, AWS, Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform
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Software Development Engineer
Arlington or Herndon or Jessup
$120k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
PLEX Solutions
PLEX Solutions: A consulting firm providing program and project management services to federal, defense, and intelligence clients.
7+ YOEActive TS/SCI with polygraph required, 7+ years software development experience, Rust and AWS experience, strong networking knowledge, CI/CD and cloud architecture skills.
Rust, AWS, CDK, CI/CD
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Software Development Engineer
Arlington or Herndon or Jessup
$120k-$200k/yr OnsiteFull Time
PLEX Solutions
PLEX Solutions: A consulting firm delivering program and project management services to advance critical national and federal missions.
7+ YOEActive TS/SCI with Polygraph, 7+ years software development experience, Rust backend development, AWS and CDK familiarity, advanced networking, CI/CD pipeline development, and memory-optimized application experience.
Rust, AWS, CDK, CI/CD
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Software Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering
Alabama or Arizona or Colorado or Connecticut or Florida or Georgia or Idaho or Illinois or Indiana or Iowa or Kentucky or Louisiana or Maryland or Massachusetts or Michigan or Minnesota or Missouri or Montana or Nebraska or Nevada or New Jersey or New Mexico or New York or North Carolina or Ohio or Oklahoma or Pennsylvania or Rhode Island or South Carolina or Tennessee or Texas or Utah or Vermont or Virginia or Wisconsin
$80k-$95k/yr RemoteFull Time
Vultr
Vultr: Privately held cloud infrastructure provider serving developers, enterprises, and AI innovators with compute, GPUs, storage, and networking.
2+ YOE2+ years building backend or systems software; production experience in Rust, Go, or C/C++; strong Linux knowledge; familiarity with IPMI/Redfish or bare-metal provisioning; proficiency with HTTP/JSON/gRPC and strong written communication.
Rust, Go, PHP, C/C++, Linux, HTTP, JSON, gRPC, IPMI, Redfish, BMC, PXE, iPXE, DPU, SmartNIC, SR-IOV, IOMMU, BGP, VXLAN, KVM, QEMU, libvirt
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GN&C Navigation Engineer III
Seattle or Brevard County or Huntsville or Denver or Los Angeles or Reston
$165k-$231k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Blue Origin
Blue Origin: Developing reusable space vehicles and infrastructure.
5+ YOEM.S. in a STEM field with 5+ years in navigation systems; strong skills in Rust, C/C++, or C; experience with state estimation/Kalman filters and navigation sensors (IMUs, star trackers); U.S. eligibility required.
C, C++, Rust, Python, DO-178C, IMUs, star trackers, optical sensors, hardware-in-the-loop
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Embedded Systems Engineer (Medical Devices)
Ashburn or Bethesda
OnsiteFull Time
Black Canyon Consulting
Black Canyon Consulting: Privately held woman-owned consulting firm providing program and IT management support to U.S. federal research agencies.
4+ YOERequires 4–7+ years of embedded systems experience, FPGA schematic and board design, Xilinx Vivado/Vitis, AXI, VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog, embedded Linux, C/C++ or Rust, Python, and communication protocols.
Xilinx FPGAs, AXI, Vivado, Vitis, AXI4, Linux, C++, Rust, Python, IEC 62304, ISO 13485, FMEA, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, Altium Designer, KiCad, VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, Yocto, PetaLinux, Buildroot, SPI, I2C, UART, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Zynq, MPSoC, RFSoC, FDA, MDR, ADCs, DACs, PMICs
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Systems Development Engineer, Amazon Leo
Arlington, Virginia, United States
$129k-$175k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Kuiper Systems
Kuiper SystemsNasdaq Global Select Market: AMZN: Developing a low Earth orbit satellite network to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband internet connectivity.
2+ YOE2+ years designing or architecting systems; programming in Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust; Linux/Unix, CI/CD, AWS, and large-scale infrastructure automation experience; US work-authorization required.
Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust, Linux/Unix, CI/CD, AWS, GeoPandas, Shapely, OGR, QGIS, PostGIS, Pandas, Spark DataFrames, AWS Athena, Glue, S3, AWS Systems Manager, SSM Agent, SSM Documents
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AI Security & LLM Engineer
Reston, Virginia, United States
OnsiteFull Time
AnaVation
AnaVation: Private federal IT contractor serving U.S. government agencies with intelligence, cloud, big-data, cybersecurity, and software-engineering services.
8+ YOEActive TS/SCI with CI polygraph, bachelor\u0002s and 8+ years relevant experience, IAT Level II and CSSP certifications required, proficiency in Rust or Python, experience with RAG pipelines, prompt injection defense, and token optimization.
Rust, Python, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Claude Code, Codex
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Senior Engineer, Edge-Cloud Reliability
Reston, Virginia, United States
$191k-$253k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Anduril Industries
Anduril Industries: Defense technology developing AI-powered autonomous military systems.
Active U.S. Top Secret/SCI clearance, strong software background (Go/Rust/Python), distributed-systems fundamentals, cloud architecture depth (GCP preferred), edge/on‑prem comfort, and willingness to travel.
Go, Rust, Python, GCP, Keycloak, LDAP, NixOS, VPC, DNS, Identity Provider (IdP)
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(Senior) Software Development Engineer (US Federal)
Reston, Virginia, United States
$164k-$246k/yr OnsiteFull Time
Workday
WorkdayNASDAQ: WDAY: Enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources.
5+ YOEUS citizen with 5+ years cloud/DevOps experience (8+ for senior), strong Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD and programming (C#, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Go); ability to obtain/maintain TS/SCI w/CI Poly.
Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo CD, Amazon Web Services, C#, Python, Ruby, Rust, Go
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Backend Software Engineer - Maps & Routing
Arlington or New York or Seattle
OnsiteFull Time
Rune Technologies
Rune Technologies: Logistics wins wars. Rune wins logistics.
4+ YOE4–6 years software engineering with routing experience; proficiency in C++ or Rust; experience building or extending a routing engine; ownership mindset.
Valhalla, OSRM, Graphhopper, C++, Rust, Go, AWS, Kubernetes, PostGIS, OpenStreetMap, tile server
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Modernization Engineer (Mid-level)
Manassas, Virginia, United States
RemoteFull Time
Spear AI
Spear AI: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning for National Security
Experience translating C/C++ to Rust, containerizing legacy systems, building CI/CD, and using IaC; strong software engineering, testing, and performance focus.
C/C++, Rust, Kafka, Redpanda, Protobuf, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Pulumi, Python
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