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Senior Rust Systems Engineer
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unsafe Rust abstractionscustom allocatorslock-free concurrencytokio runtime internalszero-copy I/O
805 candidates
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Sarah Chen
@sarahchen

Senior systems engineer, tokio core contributor with 2400+ commits, expert in async runtime internals and lock-free data structures.

Senior · Rust / Systems|San Francisco, CA
Marcus Rivera
@mrivera

Infrastructure engineer, custom allocator specialist with deep experience in zero-copy I/O and high-performance networking.

Senior · Rust / Infra|Austin, TX
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ToSarah Chen <sarah@example.com>
SubjectYour tokio runtime work caught our eye

Hi Sarah,

I came across your custom allocator for arena-based memory pools and your contributions to the tokio runtime internals. Your work on lock-free concurrent data structures is exactly the kind of low-level systems expertise we need.

We're rebuilding our distributed storage engine in Rust and need someone who can push the boundaries of safe zero-copy I/O and async runtime performance. Would love to chat about what we're working on.

Best,
Alex from Nexus Infrastructure

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