Rust Engineer
LiteLLM, San Francisco +1
The role
LiteLLM is the world's most popular AI Gateway, trusted by top companies like Adobe, Netflix, and NASA. Our platform empowers developers by providing secure, reliable access to LLMs and adjacent services. We're looking for a Rust Engineer to own the migration of LiteLLM from Python to Rust and make us the fastest AI gateway ever built.
You'll own LiteLLM's migration to Rust end to end. This is a high-stakes, high-visibility role: you'll plan the migration directly with the CTO, structure the codebase so it's ready for Rust, and lead a gradual, stability-first rollout. The work is fundamentally about performance. Every decision you make will move us toward being the lowest-latency, highest-throughput gateway in the category, without ever compromising the reliability our enterprise customers depend on.
This is a single-owner mandate. You will be the person leading the entire Python-to-Rust migration.
What you will do
- Own the end-to-end migration of LiteLLM from Python to Rust, from architecture through rollout.
- Plan the migration alongside the CTO, sequencing work to minimize risk to live, high-volume traffic.