Founding Engineer (Rust expert)

AI Tech

New York, New York (Onsite)

$200,000 - $240,000 + Equity

The Company:

We’re partnering with a company that builds open-source infrastructure that creates a feedback loop for optimizing LLM applications. By integrating with their model gateway, you can send metrics to improve models over time—making them smarter, faster, and more cost-effective.

The Role:

As a Founding Backend Engineer, you'll build the entire backend from scratch, working closely with the co-founders. Focusing on system performance, architecture optimization, and observability, you'll also manage integrations with third-party services. Using Rust, you'll create a scalable, high-performing backend that drives the company’s growth and technical direction.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience building backend systems from scratch with a high degree of ownership over technical direction and deliverables, ideally in a startup environment.
• Deep proficiency in Rust, including its use for building high-performance, scalable backend systems and services.
• Knowledge and experience in working with ClickHouse for data storage, processing, and optimization.
• Active contributions to open-source projects, demonstrating a collaborative mindset and technical expertise.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts, architecture, and best practices for building highly scalable and fault-tolerant systems.
• Solid experience with relational or NoSQL databases, and performance optimization techniques in backend systems.
• Strong ability to integrate backend systems with other services, APIs, and third-party tools.
• Understanding or experience with infrastructure for deploying and scaling machine learning models in production.
• Familiarity with container orchestration and deployment using Kubernetes for scalable backend infrastructure.
• Ability to work closely with co-founders, providing input on architectural decisions and contributing to strategic technical initiatives.

The Benefits:

A base salary between $200,000 - $250,000 + Equity and comprehensive health, dental, vision, and 401k benefits

How to Apply:

Please register your interest by sending your resume to Neha Nidamarti via the Apply link on this page.

Key Words:

NoSQL, Kubernetes, Rust, ClickHouse, Backend Engineer, Software Engineer, Distributed Systems, Open Source, Startup