Senior Rust Backend Engineer - Remote EU, Equity

directus.com; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly Europe-based

Job summary

directus.com is seeking a senior backend engineer to advance the core of a modular, self-hosted data platform used by developer teams in production. The role focuses on product engineering: delivering new features, refining the developer experience, and broadening platform capabilities with Rust.

You will collaborate with engineering and product partners to translate real user needs into production-ready features, maintainable architectures, and high-quality code in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Rust production backend experience.
• Strong systems foundations across concurrency, memory and performance.
• Experience designing resilient, maintainable architectures.
• Ability to articulate trade-offs clearly.
• Experience in distributed, remote-first teams.
• Strong written and verbal English communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver product features and platform capabilities in Rust that lift the developer experience.
• Convert product needs into clear technical plans, shaping requirements, UX and API contracts, and iterating with product managers, front-end engineers, and designers.
• Construct maintainable service and domain architecture with clean boundaries, strong test coverage, and considered abstractions.
• Take ownership end-to-end: design documents, implementation, peer reviews, testing, rollout, and post-release iteration informed by user feedback.
• Operate within a remote-first team that favors clear written communication and asynchronous collaboration.
• Lift engineering standards through code quality, documentation, and pragmatic technical judgment.

Skills

Rust

Backend

Distributed systems

API design

English

Job description

directus.com is seeking a senior backend engineer to advance the core of a modular, self-hosted data platform used by developer teams in production. The role focuses on product engineering: delivering new features, refining the developer experience, and broadening platform capabilities with Rust.

You will collaborate with engineering and product partners to translate real user needs into production-ready features, maintainable architectures, and high-quality code in a remote-first environment.