Rust Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud Dev Tools

JobCubby; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Remote‑first, async-friendly culture

Job summary

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

Join a small engineering team to contribute Rust code, work with cloud resources, and collaborate with users to shape features while enjoying a remote-friendly, asynchronous culture and flexible collaboration.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of professional software development experience.
• At least 1 year of writing production-grade Rust.
• Based between UTC-5 and UTC+4
• Familiarity with cloud-native environments (Docker, containers, Kubernetes) beyond the basics.
• 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 programming

Communication skills

DevOps mindset

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps

Datastores

Message brokers

Job description

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

Join a small engineering team to contribute Rust code, work with cloud resources, and collaborate with users to shape features while enjoying a remote-friendly, asynchronous culture and flexible collaboration.