Backend Engineer – Real-Time Data Platform (Rust)

Augur Communications Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Augur Communications Ltd is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build the distributed systems, storage infrastructure, and platform primitives that underpin Augur's sensor integration product. You will work across the full backend surface—from stream processing and storage to API design and data pipelines—using a Rust stack with Python at the boundaries.

You will own meaningful architectural decisions, reason through unfamiliar problem domains, and scale systems to support petabyte-scale

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building distributed systems.
• Ability to work across the full backend surface from data pipelines to API design.
• Strong focus on scalable, real-time data processing and storage.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed systems, storage infrastructure, and platform primitives.
• Work across the backend surface: stream processing, storage, API design, data pipelines, and service architecture.
• Own architectural decisions and reason through unfamiliar problems under real constraints.
• Contribute to petabyte-scale data storage and high-throughput pipelines.

Skills

Rust

Python

Kafka

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB

PostGIS

gRPC/protobuf

Kubernetes

Systems thinking

Software craft

Reasoning under uncertainty

AI-assisted development

Collaboration

Tools

Kafka

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB

PostGIS

gRPC/protobuf

Kubernetes

Job description

Augur Communications Ltd is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and build the distributed systems, storage infrastructure, and platform primitives that underpin Augur's sensor integration product. You will work across the full backend surface—from stream processing and storage to API design and data pipelines—using a Rust stack with Python at the boundaries.

You will own meaningful architectural decisions, reason through unfamiliar problem domains, and scale systems to support petabyte-scale