Distributed Systems Rust Engineer
Remote (American or European time zones) or Boulder, Colorado
Zed is a fast, collaborative code editor built from the ground up in Rust. We're seeking a Backend Engineer with a strong Rust background to own and maintain our server-side infrastructure.
The server-side infrastructure powers many of Zed's core features: all AI connections go through this system, as do the collaboration primitives, in addition to cross-cutting concerns like auth, billing and telemetry. We are currently rebuilding our backend from a single stateful server to a fully distributed system, and looking for someone to help lead this effort.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement reliable, high-performant backend systems in Rust
- Build on Zed's existing deterministic test execution environment to allow us to make large changes with confidence
- Contribute to architectural decisions that shape Zed's future
- Solve complex product challenges, drawing on your systems programming background when needed
- Collaborate with designers and engineers to create intuitive user interfaces
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code
- Participate in code reviews and collaborate with teammates and community members in real time
- Help improve our development processes and tooling
- Optimize performance and user experience where necessary
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Rust
- Experience deploying and maintaining distributed systems in production
- Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong product sense and user-centric design approach
- Self-directed work ethic and ability to operate autonomously
- Excellent communication skills for remote collaboration
- Willingness to work on both backend and frontend aspects of the application
- Enthusiasm for pair programming, including several hours weekly in Zed
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Cloudflare's worker infrastructure
- Knowledge of database performance characteristics, particularly PostgreSQL and SQLite.
- Familiarity with tracing, logging and telemetry tools like Axiom or Honeycomb.
- Background in building real-time collaborative systems
- Knowledge of cross-platform development challenges
- Experience working on product code, front-end, or full-stack development
Join us in revolutionizing the development experience. Your expertise could drive Zed's next game-changing feature!
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