Feldera - Backend Infrastructure Engineer: Control Plane (Rust)
Requirements
• Strong proficiency in Rust or strong systems-programming experience in a comparable language (C++, Go) with a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on Rust. • Experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems in production. • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes — building on top of it, writing controllers/operators, or designing services that run reliably within it. • Familiarity with authentication, SSO, and multi-tenancy, compliance standards (FIPS etc.), and the security considerations of enterprise/self-hosted software. • Solid Linux fundamentals and comfort operating in containerized environments (Docker). • Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to debug complex distributed-systems issues. • Self-directed with excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote team. • Candidates must have authorization to work in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time. • We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time. • Working at Feldera • Fully remote. Distributed across the U.S. and abroad. We hire for timezone overlap, not location. • Flat organization with high autonomy, ownership and asynchronous collaboration. You’ll work directly alongside the founders. • Fast and honest. We move quickly, decide based on evidence, course-correct openly, and expect you to do the same. • Rewarded for impact, not tenure. We recognize what you ship, the outcomes it drives, and how much you raise the team's ceiling. • If this sounds energizing, do apply. If not, we’re probably not the right fit.
Responsibilities
• Control plane engineering: Own and evolve the control-plane services that orchestrate pipelines across diverse customer environments. • Control plane engineering: • Kubernetes platform: evolve the Kubernetes layer that runs Feldera pipelines reliably, including resource management and self-hosted deployment workflows. • Kubernetes platform: • Enterprise readiness: Build and harden capabilities to support security, isolation, and access-control needs of large enterprises. • Enterprise readiness: • Cloud & self-hosted deployment: Develop the capabilities that let customers run Feldera across environments, from single-node laptops to multi-node clusters, on their own infrastructure. • Cloud & self-hosted deployment: • API design: Design clean, stable, well-documented APIs for the control plane that internal teams and customers build workflows against. • API design: • Reliability & operability: Make the control plane observable, debuggable, and resilient at scale. • Reliability & operability: • Troubleshooting: Debug complex distributed-systems issues across the control plane and Kubernetes layer. • Troubleshooting:
Benefits
• Medical, dental & vision - 90% of premiums covered by Feldera • (Benefits listed apply to U.S.-based employees.)
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