Backend Software Engineer, Rust

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🕒 August 27

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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MetalBear

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $12.5M Seed Round - MetalBear on 2025-09

SaaS • B2B

MetalBear is the company behind mirrord, a developer-focused tooling company that lets cloud developers run local code as if it were part of a remote Kubernetes/cloud environment without deploying. mirrord provides a CLI and IDE plugins (VS Code, IntelliJ) to simplify coding, debugging, testing, and troubleshooting by making remote services feel local, eliminating the need to build Docker images or push to CI just to test. The product is aimed at teams building cloud-native applications who want faster, easier iteration and more reliable testing in realistic cloud conditions.

📋 Description

• Contribute Rust code that creates, manages, reconfigures, and adapts cloud resources • Use AI smartly to deliver high-quality code faster • Collaborate with the engineering team on architecture, new feature design, and infrastructure • Engage directly with users to gather requirements, develop solutions, and debug issues • Build features for automatically managing cloud services such as message brokers, databases, and Kubernetes resources • Create virtually separate environments with minimal resource duplication

🎯 Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional software development experience • At least 1 year of writing production-grade Rust • Based between UTC-5 and UTC+4 • Strong systems-level thinking • Ability to debug complex, distributed environments • Comfort working async in a remote-first startup environment • Familiarity with cloud-native environments, including Docker, containers, and Kubernetes, beyond the basics • Familiarity with backend infrastructure tooling such as datastores, message brokers, and GitOps tools • Good communication skills • Experience building developer tools (nice to have) • Experience building Kubernetes operators or components interacting with the Kubernetes API (nice to have) • DevOps or Platform experience (nice to have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Meaningful stock options • Remote-first, async-friendly, and low on meetings • Competitive salary • Culture that values focus and autonomy • Work on hard, meaningful problems at the intersection of local development and cloud infrastructure • Small, high-caliber team with direct impact on thousands of developers and major companies