Backend Engineer, Cloud

The role

This person will build backend software and help own the infrastructure it runs on. They will work on cloud services for Zed and Delta, including APIs, application logic, storage, and deployment.

What you will do

• Turn emerging needs into shipped capabilities.
• Work with engineering and product partners to clarify problems and choose scope.
• Share technical stewardship of the cloud system.
• Write and review code.
• Investigate difficult bugs.
• Make deliberate technical trade-offs.
• Help others work independently through feedback and documentation.
• Participate in on-call and respond to incidents.
• Address recurring problems in software and infrastructure.

Required qualifications

• Owned backend services from design through production and continued development.
• Built and operated the cloud infrastructure behind software.
• Led projects that other engineers contributed to while writing code.
• Worked across different kinds of backend problems.
• Makes technical decisions with the people affected by them.
• If Rust is new, must be able to describe how you have learned an unfamiliar language or codebase and shipped production work in it.

Nice to have

• Production Rust experience

About the company

Zed is building tools for people who care deeply about making software.