Senior Rust Software Engineer / Technical Lead – Industrial Systems

Job Title: Senior Rust Software Engineer / Technical Lead – Industrial Systems

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Department: Technology

Number of Vacancies: 1

Job Context

MIAKI is an organization with skilled resources that are relentlessly working to make a difference in the spectrum of Tech & Digital Services. As a Multi-Country Service Provider, we specialize in customized software solutions, digital transformation, managed services, and skilled technology resources across local and international markets.

We are looking for a Senior Rust Software Engineer / Technical Lead to join our software engineering team and work on complex industrial, operational technology (OT), and systems-level software solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on expertise in Rust, combined with experience in industrial systems, enterprise integration, protocols, distributed systems, and technically demanding production environments.

This role is suitable for an engineer who can contribute hands-on to architecture and development while also providing technical direction, mentoring, code review, and engineering leadership.

Role & Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain production-grade software using Rust.
• Lead technical design and implementation of complex industrial and systems-level applications.
• Develop reliable, secure, high-performance software for industrial and OT environments.
• Work with industrial platforms and enterprise systems such as SAP PM, Historians, MES, PLM, and other operational systems.
• Design and implement integrations between IT and OT systems.
• Work with industrial communication protocols including Modbus, OPC-UA, CAN/CAN Bus, and MQTT.
• Develop software for environments requiring high availability, reliability, performance, and operational resilience.
• Work with safety-critical and regulated environments where applicable.
• Design solutions suitable for air-gapped, restricted-network, and on-premise environments.
• Analyze complex technical requirements and translate them into scalable software architectures.
• Apply Rust concepts including ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, memory safety, error handling, concurrency, and asynchronous programming.
• Optimize application performance, resource utilization, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot complex production, integration, networking, and systems-level issues.
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering best practices.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance to development teams.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, Infrastructure, Security, and client teams.
• Support technical documentation, architecture decisions, deployment planning, and operational readiness.
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing, observability, monitoring, and secure software delivery practices.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend appropriate technical solutions.

Job Requirements

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Equivalent practical experience and strong technical expertise may also be considered.

Experience Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Rust and systems-level software development.
• Demonstrated experience taking software from design and development through production deployment and support.
• Previous experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, architecture guidance, or code review.
• Experience working with industrial, OT, enterprise integration, or performance-sensitive software environments is highly preferred.

Required Technical Skills & Expertise

Rust & Systems Programming

• Strong proficiency in Rust.
• Ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, generics, error handling, and memory safety.
• Multithreading, concurrency, asynchronous programming, and performance optimization.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, debugging, and testing.

Industrial & OT Systems

• Experience with industrial/OT environments and systems integration.
• Knowledge or hands-on experience with:
• SAP PM
• MES – Manufacturing Execution Systems
• PLM – Product Lifecycle Management
• Industrial Historians
• OT/IT integration and industrial data flows.
• Understanding of operational reliability and systems deployed in industrial environments.

Industrial Protocols

Hands-on experience with one or more of the following is required/preferred:

• Modbus
• OPC-UA
• CAN / CAN Bus
• MQTT

Infrastructure & Engineering

• Strong Linux experience.
• Git and modern software development workflows.
• Docker/containerization.
• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
• Application logging, monitoring, diagnostics, and observability.
• Experience with APIs, networking, distributed systems, or event-driven architectures.

Production Environments

• Experience developing or supporting software in on-premise, air-gapped, restricted-network, or security-sensitive environments.
• Strong understanding of reliability, availability, performance, security, and operational constraints.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Edge computing or industrial edge applications.
• Real-time or near-real-time data processing.
• OT cybersecurity and secure industrial communications.
• Hardware/software integration.
• Distributed systems and high-throughput applications.
• Cloud or hybrid-cloud environments where applicable.
• Experience with industrial automation, control systems, or embedded systems.
• Knowledge of additional industrial communication protocols.
• Experience with AI-assisted software development and modern developer productivity tools.

Key Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Technical leadership and ownership.
• Ability to work on complex and ambiguous engineering problems.
• Strong software architecture and engineering judgment.
• Performance and reliability mindset.
• Ability to mentor and guide engineers.
• Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams.
• Strong focus on quality, security, maintainability, and production readiness.

Salary​​​​​​: Competitive and negotiable based on experience, technical expertise, and market standards.

Compensation & Benefits: As per company policy.

Interview Process

1. Introductory discussion with HR.
2. Technical assessment/interview with the Technology/Engineering team.
3. Technical leadership or architecture discussion with relevant management.
4. Final discussion with Project Owner/Management, where applicable.

Application Process

Interested candidates are requested to submit an updated CV highlighting their experience in Rust, systems programming, industrial/OT software, IT/OT integration, industrial protocols, enterprise platforms, and technical leadership.

Candidates with experience in SAP PM, MES, PLM, Historians, Modbus, OPC-UA, CAN, MQTT, safety-critical environments, or air-gapped/on-premise systems are encouraged to highlight these specifically in their application.