rust developer for edge video platforms

Nexus Edge is a distributed Smart City video-surveillance platform for edge devices. It provides a central controller and edge workers for camera management, storage, and event processing, with RTSP-to-HLS conversion, S3 integration, and an event-driven architecture.

• Develop backend services for the controller and edge workers;
• Design and implement REST APIs with poem / poem-openapi;
• Integrate and optimize PostgreSQL / PostGIS / TimescaleDB;
• Build video-processing pipelines for RTSP-to-HLS conversion, segmentation, and S3 storage;
• Implement asynchronous, event-driven flows with NATS JetStream, including streams, consumers, DLQ, and retry;
• Ensure security with JWT, Argon2, CORS, and RBAC;
• Enhance observability through metrics, tracing, logging, and profiling;
• Contribute to backend architecture covering consistency, fault tolerance, and backpressure;
• Collaborate with Frontend and DevOps teams.

• 2+ Years of commercial Rust experience at Middle+ level;
• Solid understanding of async/await, concurrency, and I/O;
• Production experience with poem, axum, or actix-web;
• Proficiency in sqlx, including queries, indexes, migrations, and performance;
• Hands-on Docker and Linux skills;
• Ability to read and write OpenAPI specifications;
• Experience debugging distributed systems, including timeouts, retries, and idempotency;
• Nice to have: NATS / Kafka / RabbitMQ, preferably NATS JetStream; video or IoT experience with RTSP/HLS and GStreamer; S3-compatible storage with MinIO and bucket policies; PostGIS / TimescaleDB; Rust testing with tokio-test and testcontainers; open-source contributions.

• On-site work in Belgrade, Serbia;
• Relocation required;
• Flexible schedule;
• Competitive compensation based on experience and interview performance.