Backend Engineer, Cloud

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About the role

  • Backend Engineer building Rust-based distributed cloud services for Zed and Delta. Owning APIs, infrastructure, integrations, and production reliability across the Americas.

Responsibilities

  • Build the cloud services behind Zed and Delta
  • Help rebuild the backend from a single stateful server into a fully distributed system
  • Build backend software and help own the infrastructure it runs on
  • Work across APIs, application logic, storage, asynchronous processing, deployment, and operations
  • Build Cloud Runners providing ephemeral compute for development work
  • Evolve billing for new products, pricing, and packaging
  • Integrate identity providers and develop authorization capabilities
  • Build integrations connecting Zed and Delta to developers’ existing workflows
  • Clarify problems, choose practical scope, and carry projects through implementation, rollout, and operation
  • Make consequential technical decisions and provide technical stewardship of the cloud system
  • Write and review code and investigate difficult bugs
  • Improve tests, interfaces, and documentation
  • Participate in on-call, respond to incidents, and address recurring software and infrastructure problems

Requirements

  • Experienced backend engineer
  • Owned backend services from design through production and continued development
  • Made API and data-model decisions and shipped changes to systems with active users
  • Handled failures and operational issues after launch
  • Built and operated cloud infrastructure, including provisioning resources, configuring deployments and monitoring, and diagnosing production problems
  • Led projects involving other engineers while writing code
  • Clarified requirements, design decisions, dependencies, and delivery plans
  • Worked across different kinds of backend problems, including new capabilities, integrations, and operational improvements
  • Collaborated with engineers and product partners to compare approaches and make technical trade-offs
  • Production Rust experience is a strong advantage but not required
  • Able to learn an unfamiliar language or codebase and ship production work
  • Career centered on building software, potentially combining backend engineering with platform, DevOps, or reliability work

Benefits

  • Remote work arrangement
  • Opportunity to work on Zed and Delta cloud services
  • Participation in on-call and production incident response

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudRust

Location requirements

RemoteNorth America

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