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Posted in the last 30 days: 87
Companies hiring: 54
Fully remote: 75%
Median pay of 32 listings: $202,500

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About Rust Jobs

This page lists Rust jobs at crypto and blockchain companies — Rust engineering roles at protocol teams, exchanges, node and infrastructure providers, and wallet and tooling companies. Solana and Polkadot/Substrate are both built in Rust, so that work appears here alongside general backend and systems engineering.

Titles vary more than the work does: Rust engineer, protocol engineer, blockchain engineer and core developer often cover similar ground. Listings commonly ask for async Rust (tokio), performance and memory profiling, and some exposure to distributed systems or consensus. Prior crypto experience is not always required, since the chain-specific parts are often learned on the job. Narrow by remote or location with the search box above.

Are Rust jobs in crypto only for people who already know blockchain?

No. Many teams hire on Rust ability first and expect you to pick up protocol details on the job, especially for infrastructure, tooling, node operations and internal platform work. Roles that touch consensus, cryptography or on-chain runtime code usually do want prior exposure. Read the requirements closely, since teams tend to be explicit about which parts are teachable.

What do Rust developers work on at blockchain companies?

Common work includes node clients and validators, indexers and RPC services, on-chain programs on Solana, runtime modules on Substrate, trading and settlement systems, and the SDKs other developers build on. A lot of it is ordinary systems engineering — networking, storage, concurrency and performance — applied to a chain. The listing itself is the best guide to which of these a given team means.

How do I find remote Rust jobs in Web3?

Type remote in the location box above to narrow this page, or browse /jobs/remote for every remote role on the site. Many protocol and infrastructure teams are distributed, though remote listings often limit which countries they can hire from, so check each one for a region or time-zone requirement. The alert box on this page emails every new listing on the board, daily or weekly; the per-function alerts live on the category pages.

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