Rust Backend Engineer — Distributed, Scalable Systems

Augur; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Augur is seeking an early-stage Backend Engineer to design and build distributed systems and storage infrastructure for our sensor integration platform. You’ll work across the full backend surface—from stream processing to APIs—primarily in Rust, with Python at API boundaries.

You’ll own architectural decisions and help scale a growing integration and customer base, driving robust, well-abstracted systems as we expand. Collaboration and curiosity are essential in our fast-growing team.

Qualifications

• Candidates are not required to have experience with all listed technologies.
• Adjacent understanding of related systems is acceptable.
• Strong backend design and architectural thinking are valued.

Responsibilities

• Design and build distributed backend systems and storage infrastructure.
• Develop platform primitives and APIs across the backend stack.
• Own architectural decisions and scale systems for growing customer base.
• Collaborate across teams to shape engineering culture and practices.

Skills

Systems thinking

Software craft

Reasoning under uncertainty

AI-assisted development

Collaboration

Tools

Rust

Python

Kafka

PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB/PostGIS

gRPC/protobuf

Kubernetes

Job description

Augur is seeking an early-stage Backend Engineer to design and build distributed systems and storage infrastructure for our sensor integration platform. You’ll work across the full backend surface—from stream processing to APIs—primarily in Rust, with Python at API boundaries.

You’ll own architectural decisions and help scale a growing integration and customer base, driving robust, well-abstracted systems as we expand. Collaboration and curiosity are essential in our fast-growing team.