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# Backend Engineer (Rust)

- **Company:** Talentco, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $95,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft Azure, C++ (Programming Language), Software as a Service, Databases, Distributed Systems, Indexer, Backend
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pq02xeqy4f

## About the Role

This role requires strong backend engineering skills, a real understanding of distributed systems, and the ability to evolve an architecture as load grows. You'll work in a small, senior, high-agency team where engineers own what they build., * 3-5 years of professional experience building and scaling backend systems, ideally in managed database products, SaaS or data-platform companies, or high-traffic environments.

 * A concrete story of re-architecting a system to handle a big jump in load or data volume (for example, distributing work across nodes).
 * Production Rust experience, or a strong systems background (C/C++) with genuine motivation to work in Rust.
 * A solid understanding of distributed systems trade-offs: coordination, consistency, failure modes, retries and scaling across nodes.
 * Comfort with lower-level systems work and some familiarity with database internals.
 * Nice to have: Apache Arrow / DataFusion, cloud deployment (AWS/GCP/Azure) and/or an interest in ML, robotics, AR/VR or simulation.

## Description

* Design and evolve distributed systems that scale as product usage grows, distributing data and requests across more nodes and services.
 * Help build and scale the core of a columnar analytical database, including ingestion, indexing, storage and query paths.
 * Identify and resolve the bottlenecks and failure modes that appear at scale.
 * Write production-grade Rust in a modern stack built around columnar data and object storage.
 * Take broad ownership of what you build, from early design through to production.