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Rust jobs paying $150k+

Rust commands a premium right now because the supply of senior Rust engineers is thin and the demand from infra companies is hot. These are the roles that pay accordingly.

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The $150k+ Rust band is almost all systems work — distributed databases (TigerBeetle, EdgeDB, Materialize), control planes (Cloudflare, Fastly, Vercel), blockchain validators (Solana, Aptos, Sui), and the wave of AI-infrastructure companies that rewrote their data path in Rust through 2024-2025 for memory predictability. Web-Rust roles (Axum / Actix backends at SaaS companies) do exist at this band but are rarer. Expect take-home assessments rather than LeetCode for senior interviews — companies hiring at this level care more about systems judgement than algorithm trivia. Roles with disclosed salary above the $200k mark are usually staff-track or staff-equivalent at AI-platform companies; below that, senior.

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