Backend software engineer rust

MetalBear is remote-first, early-stage, and product-led. We're building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform that lets developers and AI coding agents run code against a live cluster before it's deployed.

• Contribute Rust code that creates, manages, reconfigures and adapts cloud resources.
• Use AI smartly to deliver high quality code, faster.
• Collaborate closely with our small, world-class engineering team on architecture, new feature design and infrastructure.
• Engage directly with users to gather requirements, develop solutions, and debug issues.

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience.
• Of which at least one year of writing production-grade Rust.
• Based between UTC-5 and UTC+4
• Strong systems-level thinking and an ability to debug complex, distributed environments.
• Comfort working async in a remote-first startup environment.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Docker, containers, Kubernetes) beyond the basics.
• Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling like datastores, message brokers, GitOps tools, etc.
• Good communication skills.
• Будет плюсом: Experience building developer tools; Experience building Kubernetes operators or other components that interact with the Kubernetes API; DevOps or Platform experience

• Work on hard, meaningful problems at the intersection of local development and cloud infrastructure.
• Be part of a small, high-caliber team where your work directly impacts thousands of developers and some of the world’s biggest companies.
• Remote-first, async-friendly, and low on meetings.
• Competitive salary, meaningful stock options, and a culture that values focus and autonomy.