Senior Rust Backend Engineer

We’re hiring a Rust Backend Engineer to join a fast-growing scale-up in the observability space! If you’re passionate about high-performance backend systems, love working in high-throughput environments, and want to shape a cutting-edge infrastructure monitoring product, this role is for you.

About the Company

We are building a next-generation observability platform, designed to handle massive data ingestion and real-time analytics for modern infrastructure. Our team is fully remote, globally distributed, and focused on delivering highly scalable, efficient, and developer-friendly monitoring solutions.

What You’ll Be Working On

• Developing and optimizing Rust backend services to process high volumes of observability data
• Architecting and maintaining high-throughput distributed systems with a focus on performance and reliability
• Collaborating closely with product teams to design solutions that meet real-world monitoring needs
• Contributing to scalability, fault tolerance, and low-latency data processing pipelines
• Bringing a leadership mindset to technical discussions and decision-making

What We’re Looking For

• Strong Rust expertise – experience in backend engineering & systems programming
• High-throughput system design – understanding of performance-critical applications
• Observability/monitoring experience (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, or similar is a plus)
• Product-driven engineering mindset – ability to balance technical excellence with business impact
• Leadership mentality – while this is an IC role, we value engineers who take initiative and can influence technical direction

Salary & Benefits

• €100K-130K per year for the right candidate
• Fully remote – work from anywhere within European timezones
• Join a fast-growing scale-up with a strong technical culture
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge observability & monitoring technology

Interested? Send your resume to infra.monitoring@rustjobs.dev