Senior Cloud Backend Engineer

Zed Industries; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Zed Industries is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build the cloud services behind Zed and Delta. The server-side infrastructure powers AI connections, collaboration primitives, auth, billing, and telemetry, and we are migrating from a single stateful server to a distributed backend.

This role is hands-on: you’ll write and review Rust code, own production behavior, and partner with engineers to shape projects, make trade‑offs, and ensure reliability as the system scales.

Qualifications

• Experience owning backend services from design to production.
• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to lead projects and collaborate with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Turn emerging needs into shipped capabilities with partners.
• Share technical stewardship of the cloud system and guide work.
• Stay hands-on: write and review code and debug issues.
• Make deliberate trade-offs to balance scope and impact.
• Help others work independently by sharing context and tests.
• Own production behavior: participate in on-call and incidents.

Skills

API design

Distributed systems

Rust

Cloud infrastructure

Technical leadership

Tools

Cloudflare Workers

WebAssembly

Rust tooling

Job description

Zed Industries is seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build the cloud services behind Zed and Delta. The server-side infrastructure powers AI connections, collaboration primitives, auth, billing, and telemetry, and we are migrating from a single stateful server to a distributed backend.

This role is hands-on: you’ll write and review Rust code, own production behavior, and partner with engineers to shape projects, make trade‑offs, and ensure reliability as the system scales.