Open to candidates across Americas.
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Open to candidates across Americas.
“The Americas (North, Central, South)”
- Async-first
- The listing doesn't promise async-first working.
- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Backend Engineer on the Cloud team, you will help rebuild Zed's server-side backend from a single stateful server into a fully distributed system. The role focuses primarily on software engineering—writing APIs, application logic, storage, and asynchronous processing mostly in Rust—while also owning the managed infrastructure and operations behind the software.
What you'll do
- Turn emerging product and engineering needs into shipped cloud capabilities and practical scoped solutions.
- Share technical stewardship of the cloud backend and guide consequential architecture decisions.
- Write and review clean, reliable code in Rust, including services running on Cloudflare Workers via WebAssembly.
- Build features such as ephemeral Cloud Runners, billing evolutions, identity provider integrations, and developer workflow integrations.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and continuous operational improvements.
What you bring
- Track record of owning backend services from design and API/data modeling through production and ongoing maintenance.
- Hands-on experience building, deploying, and operating cloud infrastructure alongside application code.
- Experience leading technical projects while actively contributing code and mentoring teammates.
- Readiness to build in Rust, either through proven production Rust experience or a demonstrated history of rapidly learning new languages and codebases.
About Zed
Zed is building high-performance, collaborative code-editing tools designed for developers who care deeply about making software.
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