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Let’s find you the right jobs faster Get Started Search These jobs were popular with other job seekers Lead Software Engineer - Secure Environment Sanderson Government and Defence Cheltenham (GL50) £91000 - £115000 per annum + + DV bonus + benefits 1 month ago Principal Software Engineer Hackajob Ltd Gloucester (GL1) Competitive 3 weeks ago Senior Principal Software Engineer Moog UK Tewkesbury (GL20) 4 weeks ago Senior Software Engineer YT Technologies Hereford (HR1) From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum 1 day ago C++ Developer Hackajob Ltd Gloucester, Gloucestershire Competitive 3 weeks ago Senior Verification Engineer (IP verification) ARM Bristol, Avon 5 days ago Lead Systems Engineer - ISR & Sensors (International Travel) SRT Marine Systems plc High Orchard, Gloucester (GL1), GL1 2TG Excellent Package 1 month ago Systems Engineer Inspired Recruitment Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Unspecified 1 week ago Principal Software Engineer Hackajob Ltd Gloucester (GL1) Competitive 3 weeks ago Principal Electronics And Software Product Engineer Redline Group Ltd MILTON (CB24) £75000 - £90000 per annum 3 hours ago NEW Rust Developer Richmond Square Consulting Limited Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Permanent Contract; Hybrid Published: 2 days ago From £95,000 to £105,000 per annum + Bonus & Benefits / Hybrid working Apply Save Rust Developer Richmond Square Consulting Limited Apply Rust Developer Cheltenham / Flexible Hybrid £95,000 – £100,000 basic + package UK Security Clearance eligibility required An opportunity has opened for an experienced Senior Rust Developer to join a growing engineering team working on next-generation, cutting-edge national defence technologies. This is a genuinely technical role for somebody with strong commercial Rust experience who is comfortable working across secure systems, networking, distributed architectures and cryptography. You’ll be involved throughout the engineering lifecycle – designing and developing secure, high-performance software, solving complex technical problems and contributing to architecture and security decisions across highly sensitive systems. Benefits As a Rust Developer / Rust Engineer at this company, you will benefit from Basic starting salary of £95,000 - £100,000 Discretionary Bonus Benefits including Pension Plan, Life Assurance etc. 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays Hybrid working - onsite and remote / work from home Flexible working hours Awesome team and company culture - knowledge sharing peers A genuine opportunity to work on exciting projects and progress your career What you’ll be doing Designing and developing high-performance software using Rust Building distributed and networked systems Working with Zenoh / Eclipse Zenoh, including publish/subscribe and peer-to-peer communications Developing secure communications using TLS 1.2/1.3, mTLS, PKI and X.509 certificates Working with certificate lifecycle management, trust chains and secure key management Applying cryptographic principles including encryption, hashing, digital signatures and key exchange Developing resilient network services using TCP/IP Investigating complex software, networking, security and performance issues Identifying and reducing technical, architectural and cyber-security risks Maintaining high standards across secure coding, automated testing and code review Providing technical guidance across multidisciplinary engineering teams What we’re looking for You’ll need strong commercial experience across: Rust development / systems programming Ownership, borrowing, lifetimes and traits Concurrency and asynchronous Rust Zenoh / Eclipse Zenoh Distributed messaging and publish/subscribe architectures Secure software engineering / secure-by-design principles TLS / SSL, mTLS, PKI and X.509 Certificate Authorities, certificate chains and trust stores Applied cryptography and secure key management Network programming and TCP/IP Linux-based development Software architecture, debugging and complex problem solving Automated testing, Git and CI/CD Experience with technologies such as rustls, OpenSSL, RustCrypto, Tokio, HSMs, TPMs, Zero Trust architectures, embedded/edge systems or other high-assurance software environments would be particularly useful. Defence / Security Previous experience within Defence, National Security, Government or another security-sensitive environment would be advantageous, particularly where you’ve worked on secure communications or high-assurance software. You must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of UK National Security Vetting for the position. Existing clearance would obviously be beneficial but isn’t necessarily essential. Why consider it? This isn’t a standard commercial Rust role. You’ll be working on complex, technically demanding systems where performance, resilience and security genuinely matter, within a business developing cutting-edge national defence technology. If this is of interest to you then please apply via the link or contact me directly via Linked In. All the best, Charlie Syrett Richmond Square Consulting Ltd Alternative job titles: Rust Engineer, Software Engineer, Software Developer Apply Richmond Square Consulting Limited IT & Tech 8 Jobs Similar Rust Developer Jobs Popular with Other Job Seekers Lead Software Engineer - Secure Environment Sanderson Government and Defence Cheltenham (GL50) £91000 - £115000 per annum + + DV bonus + benefits 1 month ago Principal Software Engineer Hackajob Ltd Gloucester (GL1) Competitive 3 weeks ago Senior Principal Software Engineer Moog UK Tewkesbury (GL20) 4 weeks ago Senior Software Engineer YT Technologies Hereford (HR1) From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum 1 day ago C++ Developer Hackajob Ltd Gloucester, Gloucestershire Competitive 3 weeks ago Senior Verification Engineer (IP verification) ARM Bristol, Avon 5 days ago Lead Systems Engineer - ISR & Sensors (International Travel) SRT Marine Systems plc High Orchard, Gloucester (GL1), GL1 2TG Excellent Package 1 month ago Systems Engineer Inspired Recruitment Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Unspecified 1 week ago Principal Software Engineer Hackajob Ltd Gloucester (GL1) Competitive 3 weeks ago Principal Electronics And Software Product Engineer Redline Group Ltd MILTON (CB24) £75000 - £90000 per annum 3 hours ago NEW Rust Developer jobs Rust Developer jobs in Cheltenham IT jobs IT jobs in Cheltenham Software Development jobs Software Development jobs in Cheltenham Jobs in Cheltenham Software Engineer jobs Software Developer jobs Coder jobs Developer jobs Software Design Engineer jobs Systems Programmer jobs Software Engineers jobs Applications Developer jobs Software Engineering jobs Lead Ruby Developer jobs Application Programmer jobs Application Developer jobs Developer It jobs Golang Developer jobs Software Engineer Developer jobs Gaming Software Engineer jobs Get hired. 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