Rust Backend Engineer: Control Plane & Kubernetes (Remote)

Feldera; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Fully remote

HSA & FSA

401(k)

Job summary

Feldera is seeking a Rust backend engineer to own the core control plane and the Kubernetes layer that runs Feldera pipelines. You will build APIs and services for deployment, management, and scale across customer environments, with enterprise-grade security and multi-tenancy.

You will contribute to authentication, SSO, and cloud integration while enabling self-hosted deployments on customers’ own infrastructure. Fully remote work with a small, autonomous team and strong emphasis on reliability.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in Rust or strong systems-programming experience in a comparable language (C++, Go) with a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on Rust.
• Experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems in production.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes—building on top of it, writing controllers/operators, or designing services that run reliably within it.
• Familiarity with authentication, SSO, and multi-tenancy, compliance standards, and security considerations of enterprise/self-hosted software.
• Solid Linux fundamentals and comfort operating in containerized environments (Docker).
• Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to debug complex distributed-systems issues.
• Self-directed with excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote team.

Responsibilities

• Control plane engineering: Own and evolve the control-plane services that orchestrate pipelines across diverse customer environments.
• Kubernetes platform: evolve the Kubernetes layer that runs Feldera pipelines reliably, including resource management and self-hosted deployment workflows.
• Enterprise readiness: Build and harden capabilities to support security, isolation, and access-control needs of large enterprises.
• Cloud & self-hosted deployment: Develop capabilities for customers to run Feldera across environments, from single-node laptops to multi-node clusters.
• API design: Design clean, stable, well-documented APIs for the control plane that internal teams and customers build workflows against.
• Reliability & operability: Make the control plane observable, debuggable, and resilient at scale.
• Troubleshooting: Debug complex distributed-systems issues across the control plane and Kubernetes layer.

Skills

Rust

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Authentication

SSO

Multi-tenancy

Linux

Docker

Troubleshooting

Remote work

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Feldera is seeking a Rust backend engineer to own the core control plane and the Kubernetes layer that runs Feldera pipelines. You will build APIs and services for deployment, management, and scale across customer environments, with enterprise-grade security and multi-tenancy.

You will contribute to authentication, SSO, and cloud integration while enabling self-hosted deployments on customers’ own infrastructure. Fully remote work with a small, autonomous team and strong emphasis on reliability.