Senior Cloud Backend Engineer (Rust, Distributed Systems)

Zed; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zed is building tools for people who care deeply about making software. We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build the cloud services behind Zed and Delta, and to lead the rebuild from a single stateful server to a distributed system.

The role focuses on Rust-based backend, auth, billing, telemetry, and scalable infra. As a technical partner to engineers, you will shape projects, write production-ready code, and own production behavior including on-call duties and incident

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services to production with strong reliability.
• Familiarity with API and data-model decisions and handling operational issues.
• Ability to own projects end-to-end and mentor teammates.

Responsibilities

• Turn emerging needs into shipped backend capabilities with clear scope and rollout.
• Share technical stewardship of the cloud system and guide decisions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Rust

Distributed systems

Code reviews

API design

Performance optimization

Tools

Rust

WebAssembly

Cloudflare Workers

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Zed is building tools for people who care deeply about making software. We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to help build the cloud services behind Zed and Delta, and to lead the rebuild from a single stateful server to a distributed system.

The role focuses on Rust-based backend, auth, billing, telemetry, and scalable infra. As a technical partner to engineers, you will shape projects, write production-ready code, and own production behavior including on-call duties and incident