Remote Rust Backend Engineer for AI-Powered Cloud Tools

JobCubby; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Remote-first culture

Async-friendly work

Job summary

MetalBear is a remote-first, early-stage company building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform that lets developers and AI agents run code against a live cluster before deployment.

Join a small, world‑class engineering team to implement Rust-powered cloud-native features, collaborate on architecture, and engage with users to understand requirements and rapidly fix issues in distributed environments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• At least 1 year of writing production-grade Rust.
• Based between UTC-5 and UTC+4.
• Strong systems-level thinking and the ability to debug complex, distributed environments.
• Comfort working async in a remote-first startup environment.
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments beyond the basics (Docker, containers, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling like datastores, message brokers, GitOps tools, etc.
• Good communication skills.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

Async

Cloud-native

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Job description

MetalBear is a remote-first, early-stage company building mirrord, a Kubernetes development platform that lets developers and AI agents run code against a live cluster before deployment.

Join a small, world‑class engineering team to implement Rust-powered cloud-native features, collaborate on architecture, and engage with users to understand requirements and rapidly fix issues in distributed environments.