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Hire Rust developers who make correctness the default
Performance-sensitive services, systems software and the code where a crash or a data race is expensive. A dedicated Rust developer from Latin America who works your hours and writes safe, readable Rust your team can maintain.
TRUSTED BY TEAMS WHOSE CLOUDTASK HIRES HAVE STAYED 5 TO 8 YEARS
How it works
How do I hire a Rust developer?
You do one thing: interview. We handle everything else.
Post the role
5 minutes. The role, the motion, the tools, the comp band. That is all we need to start.
Review your matches
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours.
Interview and hire
We coordinate interviews. On Managed Staffing, we also handle payroll and compliance across LATAM.
WHY TEAMS TRUST CLOUDTASK
What you get with every hire
Dedicated to your codebase
One Rust developer who learns your code, your conventions and your roadmap. Not a freelancer who closes a ticket and moves on.
Same hours as your team
Latin America and the Caribbean overlap the US working day, so code review, standups and production issues get handled live.
Searched against your stack
Rust edition, async runtime, target platform and the crates you depend on come from your brief, and each profile is checked against them before you see it.
Replacement guarantee
24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire. If the fit is wrong, the guarantee covers the replacement search.
WHY CLOUDTASK
Staffing with numbers behind it
10,000+
hires placed
since 2016
85%
still in seat
past 90 days
24 months
replacement guarantee
on Managed Staffing
12
countries
across Latin America and the Caribbean
TECH STACK
The Rust stack we screen for
Language
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Ownership, borrowing and lifetimes
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Traits and generics
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Error handling with Result
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Unsafe code, reviewed and contained
Async and services
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Tokio
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Axum, Actix Web and Tonic
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Serde
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SQLx and Diesel
Systems and interop
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FFI with C and C++
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WebAssembly
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Embedded and no_std targets
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Command line tools
Tooling
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Cargo and workspaces
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Clippy and rustfmt
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Criterion benchmarks
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Property and fuzz testing
PRICING MODEL
Managed Staffing.
Managed Staffing is open to every role we place. We find the person, handle payments and compliance, and stay involved after the hire with check-ins, visibility, and escalation when something is off. You get the person. We keep the machine running. For roles that create demand, outbound SDRs, BDRs, demand generation and full-cycle AEs, Managed Staffing runs on a six-month minimum term.
Pay
One all-in monthly rate
Per person. That is the number, and there is nothing added to it.
In the monthly rate
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Matching coordination
- Worker payments
- Compliance and employment administration
- Onboarding support at day 0, 7, 30 and 60
- Ongoing check-ins with the hire and with you
- Time and activity tracking, on by default
- Performance escalation
- 24-month replacement guarantee. Replacements not capped.
- Health benefits available on request
- Equipment benefits available on request
Stays with you
- The work itself
- Priorities and direction
- Who you hire
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchPRICING MODEL
Direct Hire.
Direct Hire is open to every role we place. We find the person, vet them, and hand them over. You employ them, you manage them, you own the relationship from day one. Roles that create demand usually land here, because live call feedback and daily coaching work best coming straight from your sales leader, and there is no minimum term.
Pay
20% to 30%
Of first-year base salary. One time, quoted per role, paid when they accept.
In the fee
- Sourcing from the CloudTask staffing and recruiting company
- Screening and vetting
- Shortlist of matched candidates
- Interview coordination
- Offer support
- 6-month replacement guarantee. One replacement, same job description.
Yours when they accept
- Employment and payroll
- Compliance and employment administration
- Ongoing management
- Time and activity tracking
- Health benefits and equipment benefits
$299 to start your search. One time, not a subscription. It applies to your buyout or toward your first placement.
Start your searchHow CloudTask compares
Run the numbers. We did.
The same role, three ways to fill it.
Swipe to compare
| US Direct Hire | Staffing Agency | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Time to First Interview | 48 hours | 3 to 6 weeks | 2 to 4 weeks |
| Payroll & Compliance | Included on Managed Staffing | You manage | Included in rate |
| Vetting Process | Human + AI verified | You screen | Recruiter screened |
| Candidate spam | Screened out before you see a profile | Common | Low |
| Tool Verification | Verified per candidate | Self-reported | Rarely verified |
| Free Replacements | 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire | None | Variable |
Testimonials
Trusted by teams that hire with us
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LATAM has been a gold mine for talent. Our CloudTask hires understand our company culture and mission, and they connect with our customers in a way that drives high NPS and CX scores.
David Barrett CEO, Expensify -
At first we were an SF-based team only. Then I met Amir Reiter back in 2018. After visiting Medellín, I knew LATAM would be key to our growth and success.
Tim Zheng CEO, Apollo.io -
After meeting my CX and CS team in Medellín, we immediately loved the culture and the work ethic. As a European-HQ company, we found LATAM to be perfect to service our American clients.
Carl Carell CRO and Co-founder, GetAccept
SKILLS
Top skills to look for in a Rust developer
Getting Rust past the compiler is the entry ticket. These are the skills that decide whether your Rust code is fast, safe and still readable next year.
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Ownership, understood
Designs data flow so the borrow checker agrees, instead of cloning everything or wrapping every value in shared pointers to make errors go away.
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Traits and types that help
Uses traits, generics and enums to make invalid states impossible to represent, without type puzzles nobody else can read.
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Errors as values
Returns meaningful errors with Result, adds context, and keeps unwrap and expect out of code paths that can fail in production.
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Async with a clear model
Knows how futures, executors and cancellation work in Tokio, and avoids blocking calls inside async code.
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Unsafe kept small
Uses unsafe only when needed, isolates it behind a safe interface and documents the invariants it relies on.
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Performance from measurement
Benchmarks and profiles before optimizing, and knows where allocations and copies come from.
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Tests beyond the happy path
Unit tests, integration tests and property or fuzz tests on the code that parses untrusted input.
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AI as a tool, reviewed
Uses coding assistants for boilerplate and tests, and reviews every generated line, especially anything marked unsafe.
HIRING GUIDE
How to hire Rust developers
Rust is chosen where correctness and performance matter, so a gap in ownership of the code is expensive rather than inconvenient. This guide covers what a Rust developer does, what to test, the red flags and when a dedicated Rust developer is the wrong hire.
What does a Rust developer do?
Builds and maintains software in Rust: backend services, command line tools, libraries, systems components, WebAssembly modules or embedded firmware, depending on the company.
Day to day that means writing and reviewing code, designing types and interfaces, measuring performance and keeping dependencies and the toolchain current.
Services, systems or embedded?
Rust work splits into areas that need different experience. Async network services use Tokio and web frameworks. Systems work touches operating system interfaces and C libraries. Embedded work runs without the standard library on constrained hardware.
Put the area in the brief. A strong services developer is not automatically ready for firmware, and the reverse is also true.
Reading unsafe code and interop
Many Rust codebases call C or C++ libraries, and that code sits behind unsafe blocks. Those blocks are where memory bugs can come back.
Ask how the candidate has wrapped a C library, what invariants the unsafe code relied on and how they tested it.
Async Rust
Async Rust is powerful and has sharp edges: blocking calls inside async functions, futures that are dropped mid-operation and lifetimes across await points.
Ask the candidate how they handle cancellation and timeouts in a Tokio service, and what they do when a task needs to run CPU-heavy work.
What to test in a Rust developer interview
Give a small task close to your real work: parse input, handle errors with Result, and expose a function with tests. Read how they model the data and how many clones and unwraps appear.
Then show code that fights the borrow checker with clones and reference counting everywhere, and ask how they would restructure it. A strong answer changes the data flow, not only the syntax.
Red flags in Rust developer candidates
Unwrap everywhere. Code that calls unwrap on every Result will panic in production the first time something unexpected happens.
Clone to silence the compiler. Cloning data or wrapping everything in shared pointers to make borrow errors go away hides a design problem and costs performance.
Unsafe without a reason. Using unsafe for convenience, with no written invariant, brings back the bugs Rust was chosen to prevent.
Blocking in async code. Calling blocking functions inside async tasks stalls the whole runtime under load.
Generated code they cannot explain. Ask them to walk through code they wrote with an AI assistant. If they cannot say why it compiles and why it is safe, nobody has reviewed it.
When should you not hire a dedicated Rust developer?
When the work is a standard web application where performance and memory safety are not the hard part. A language with a larger framework ecosystem may get you there faster.
It is also the wrong hire when nobody on your side can review code or set priorities. A single developer with no technical lead and no product owner tends to build what is interesting instead of what the business needs.
How much does it cost to hire a Rust developer?
It depends on seniority, the scope of the work and the country the person works from, and any single number describes one scenario and calls it a price.
What is worth understanding is the shape. On Managed Staffing it is one all-in monthly rate per person, with payments, compliance and replacement cover inside it. On Direct Hire it is a one-time fee of 20% to 30% of first-year base salary and the person goes on your payroll. We quote your number before you interview anyone.
Why hire a Rust developer in Latin America?
Overlap. Development runs on code review, standups and incidents, and Latin America and the Caribbean share most of the US working day, so those happen in real time instead of overnight.
The second reason is communication. Your developer writes pull request descriptions, technical notes and status updates in English, and we screen English live on a call.
How does CloudTask hire for this role?
You send the area you work in, the async runtime and crates you use, the platforms you target and the hours you need covered. We source against that brief and come back with 3 to 5 matched profiles within 48 hours, each one screened on a live call and checked against the stack you named.
You interview and choose. On Managed Staffing we handle payments, compliance and onboarding and stay involved with check-ins. On Direct Hire the person joins your payroll from day one. Both carry a replacement guarantee: 24 months on Managed Staffing, 6 months on Direct Hire.
FAQ
The fine print, in plain terms.
Can a Rust developer work with our existing C or C++ code?
Can we introduce Rust into an existing codebase?
How fast can a Rust developer start?
What is the $299 for?
Why is there no number on the monthly rate?
Who is the legal employer?
How does tracking work, and can I turn it off?
What happens if the person does not work out?
Is there a platform or subscription fee?
Ready to hire?
3 to 5 matches in 48 hours. Start with a quick role brief to get your shortlist.