Backend Software Engineer, Rust

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Germany.

📋 Description

• Contribute Rust code that develops, manages, reconfigures, and adapts cloud resources.

• Leverage AI effectively to produce high-quality code more efficiently.

• Collaborate with the engineering team on architecture, design of new features, and infrastructure.

• Engage directly with users to collect requirements, create solutions, and troubleshoot issues.

• Develop features for the automatic management of cloud services such as message brokers, databases, and Kubernetes resources.

• Create virtually isolated environments with minimal resource duplication.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of professional experience in software development.

• At least 1 year of experience writing production-quality Rust code.

• Located between UTC-5 and UTC+4.

• Strong understanding of systems-level thinking.

• Capability to debug complex, distributed environments.

• Comfortable working asynchronously in a remote-first startup setting.

• Familiarity with cloud-native environments, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes, beyond the basics.

• Knowledge of backend infrastructure tools such as datastores, message brokers, and GitOps tools.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Experience in building developer tools (preferred).

• Experience in creating Kubernetes operators or components that interact with the Kubernetes API (preferred).

• Background in DevOps or Platform engineering (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Meaningful stock options.

• Remote-first, async-friendly culture with minimal meetings.

• Competitive salary.

• A culture that emphasizes focus and autonomy.

• Opportunities to tackle challenging, meaningful problems at the intersection of local development and cloud infrastructure.

• A small, high-caliber team that directly impacts thousands of developers and major companies.