Backend Software Engineer, Rust
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Job Description
Backend Rust Engineer building MetalBear’s mirrord Kubernetes development platform. Managing cloud resources and integrations for fast, realistic pre-deployment development feedback.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute Rust code that creates, manages, reconfigures, and adapts cloud resources
- Use AI smartly to deliver high-quality code faster
- Collaborate with the engineering team on architecture, new feature design, and infrastructure
- Engage directly with users to gather requirements, develop solutions, and debug issues
- Work on cloud integration features that automatically manage cloud services such as message brokers, databases, and Kubernetes resources to create virtually separate environments with minimal resource duplication
Requirements:
- At least 3 years of professional software development experience
- At least 1 year of writing production-grade Rust
- Based between UTC-5 and UTC+4
- Strong systems-level thinking
- Ability to debug complex, distributed environments
- Comfort working async in a remote-first startup environment
- Familiarity with cloud-native environments, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes, beyond the basics
- Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling such as datastores, message brokers, and GitOps tools
- Good communication skills
- Nice to have: experience building developer tools
- Nice to have: experience building Kubernetes operators or other components that interact with the Kubernetes API
- Nice to have: DevOps or Platform experience
Benefits:
- Remote-first, async-friendly, and low on meetings
- Competitive salary
- Meaningful stock options
- Culture that values focus and autonomy















