Backend Rust Engineer

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About Zed Industries

Providing high-quality, reliable, and customized thermoforming and plastic packaging equipment to meet diverse industry needs worldwide.

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Zed is a fast, collaborative code editor built from the ground up in Rust. We’re seeking a Backend Engineer with a strong Rust background to own and maintain our server-side infrastructure.
The server-side infrastructure powers many of Zed’s core features: all AI connections go through this system, as do the collaboration primitives, in addition to cross-cutting concerns like auth, billing and telemetry. We are currently rebuilding our backend from a single stateful server to a fully distributed system, and looking for someone to help lead this effort.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement reliable, high-performant backend systems in Rust

  • Build on Zed’s existing deterministic test execution environment to allow us to make large changes with confidence

  • Contribute to architectural decisions that shape Zed’s future

  • Solve complex product challenges, drawing on your systems programming background when needed

  • Collaborate with designers and engineers to create intuitive user interfaces

  • Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code

  • Participate in code reviews and collaborate with teammates and community members in real time

  • Help improve our development processes and tooling

  • Optimize performance and user experience where necessary

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Rust

  • Experience deploying and maintaining distributed systems in production

  • Solid understanding of algorithms and data structures

  • Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills

  • Strong product sense and user-centric design approach

  • Self-directed work ethic and ability to operate autonomously

  • Excellent communication skills for remote collaboration

  • Willingness to work on both backend and frontend aspects of the application

  • Enthusiasm for pair programming, including several hours weekly in Zed

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Cloudflare’s worker infrastructure

  • Knowledge of database performance characteristics, particularly PostgreSQL and SQLite

  • Familiarity with tracing, logging and telemetry tools like Axiom or Honeycomb

  • Background in building real-time collaborative systems

  • Knowledge of cross-platform development challenges

  • Experience working on product code, front-end, or full-stack development

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What position is Zed Industries hiring for?

Zed Industries is hiring a remote Backend Rust Engineer from πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USA

What type of employment does Zed Industries offer?

This is a Full Time role.

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