Well, first of all, welcome! This is the first blog post on rustyjobs.com, the newest built in Rust, organic, vegan, etc. social experiment in the Rust-lang ecosystem.

Yes, I am being a bit facetious here, but hear me out! I think there's a real oppportunity here for bringing some light into our lives as we find ourselves in the pretty dark place called the 2025 job market.

I'll try writing up a bit on my motivations for creating this website. I'll also present some of my more general findings on the Rust job market situation in 2025, as this seems to be a hot topic as of late.

The origins of rustyjobs.com

There already exist at least 3 job board websites targetted specifically at the Rust programming language. There may be more, those 3 are what google tends to show for rust jobs queries though.

As it happens all of them are rather boring. And not really updated all that often.

Take rustjobs.dev for example. They have a great team, I've interacted with them in the past and they're really good at what they're doing. But they are running an actual, honest to god static-page job board with paid adverts. That's great! Although...

I ended up having to scour Linkedin and the like anyway, not finding much use for the existing Rust boards.

And I really hate Linkedin so this made me sad.

So I had an idea to do something about it.

(As it happens I was also concurrently working on a web app boilerplate library in Rust and this was a good opportunity for even more dogfooding. Yum.)

Bringing in the social

With rustyjobs.com I'm not trying to build a social network. But! I think user interaction spices things up enough to make the site more enjoyable. This in turn could drive some additional engagement. And I don't mean that in a sad corporate kind of way.

I imagine there's more people looking for Rust jobs out there, like me. If there was a more interactive tool that would allow for aggregating existing jobs from other sources, some social interaction in the form of comments, etc., we could make life better. And maybe use Linkedin less. Hopefully!

Aggregation can be problematic

Not everyone is going to be happy with their job posting being spread around. Even more so when they're getting live comments out there from unhappy applicants they've ghosted :')

I'm trying to provide some safe-measures to not make anyone too miserable. This includes approval-based model for third-party/aggregated postings, as well as email notifications so that the original job poster can remove the posting using a simple link they get on their email inbox as soon as the posting gets published.

New job board in 2025? In this economy?

I'm a few years late, sure.

The whole industry seems to be undergoing a huge shift. There's no doubt about it.

There's something to be said about it being spawned by LLMs getting good-enough for simple coding tasks, blah blah. That's not really the case for the Rust world and real engineering™.

Rust jobs

When it comes to the Rust niche, there surely are some interesting trends that make it stand out.

In terms of companies only hiring senior engineers --- we've been accustomed to that for the longest time with Rust hiring. The global shift to hiring seniors is not new to us so we don't really take notice.

One trend specific to Rust is that it's actually a fast-growing language, both in terms of users and in terms of industry acceptance. This is what I think is actually the defining trend moving forward --- while global demand for software engineers is likely going to decline, Rust jobs will grow, slowly but steadily.

Adoption and the way forward

The biggest factor when it comes to Rust adoption seems to have always been migrating existing (usually C++) codebases, or more often, parts of those codebases. From what people report it looks like this trend is not slowing down, and it is still driving new Rust jobs showing up all over the place. Target audience here is usually well-seasoned C/C++ developers looking to dabble in Rust.

The second biggest factor is greenfield or semi-greenfield projects. More and more companies invest in Rust either on the start of their journey or relatively early into development. Here we can find some job offers targetting specifically Rust-oriented engineers, prefferably with 3-5 years of experience.

Juniors are not having a fun time, obviously. As I mentioned previously, anyone who's been around the Rust ecosystem knows that this is not new. It still sucks though. I think it will inevitably get better. Unless the LLMs take all our jobs within the next 10 years. But if that doesn't happen companies will need to start filling that demographic (expieriencio-graphic?) gap at some point. The big question is when.

Summing up

Well, Are we job board yet? I say we're not quite there. There's no huge demand for this kind of thing though, so no wonder the supply is not there either.

Either way I invite you to join me on this great adventure.

As the footer says, this is the very first public version of this site. So expect the unexpected and all that. Not counting the basic and not-so-basic (HTMX) Javascript and HTML, it's fully written in Rust, which I think is pretty cool.

Please feel free to scour the site, if you find any bugs do let me know. You can add comments under this blog post once you log in with your github account.

If you like the experience consider adding a testimonial in the settings section. Just a few words that I can show off on the homepage. For fun, if nothing else.