MetalBear · 1 month ago
Senior Backend Engineer (Rust)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expMetalBear is building the next generation of developer tools for cloud engineers. They are seeking an experienced Rust engineer to help push their flagship product, mirrord, to the next level by contributing to high-performance code and improving the developer experience.
Developer ToolsInformation TechnologyOpen SourceSaaSSoftware
Responsibilities
Contribute to high-performance Rust code that powers real-time mirroring between local development and remote Kubernetes environments
Improve the developer experience — making cloud development as seamless and fast as working locally
Collaborate closely with our small, world-class engineering team on architecture, performance optimization, and new feature design
Engage with our open-source community — gather feedback, debug issues, and contribute to a product developers love
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional software development experience
2+ years writing production-grade Rust
Strong systems-level thinking and an ability to debug complex, distributed environments
Comfort working async in a remote-first startup environment with high autonomy
Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Docker, containers, Kubernetes) beyond the basics
Preferred
Experience building developer tools for or extending Kubernetes
Experience building Kubernetes operators or other components that interact with the Kubernetes API
Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling like datastores, message brokers, GitOps tools, etc
Open-source experience — contributing to or maintaining developer-facing OSS projects
Benefits
Competitive salary
Meaningful stock options
Company
MetalBear
Creators of mirrord | Faster, cheaper Kubernetes Development
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$12.5M2025-09-16Seed· $12.5M
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