This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend the majority of your time designing, building, testing, and improving software.

You'll also have opportunities to work directly with engineers using Restate in production. Rather than sitting behind a product boundary, you'll see firsthand how teams are building with Restate, help solve challenging technical problems when needed, and bring those insights back into the product.

As one of our early engineers, you'll have significant influence over both the technology and the engineering practices we build around it.

What You'll Do

• Build distributed systems infrastructure: Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components. Work on problems involving durable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault tolerance. Build systems that are low-latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scale. Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime. Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platform.
• Build for production: Design systems that operate reliably in real-world production environments. Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues. Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability. Work across the boundary between application code and infrastructure when needed.
• Work closely with engineers using Restate: Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate. Understand real-world technical challenges and translate them into product improvements. Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful. Bring feedback from production users directly into engineering and product decisions.
• Shape the product and engineering culture: Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions. Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for strong backend engineers who are excited by distributed systems and infrastructure and want to work on hard technical problems.

Must Have:

• Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or other systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling
• Strong experience in at least one backend language; Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similar are particularly relevant
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
• Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design

Nice to Have:

• Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or other infrastructure software
• Experience with Rust or other systems programming languages
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with storage engines, networking, or low-level systems
• Experience rearchitecting or migrating production systems
• Open-source contributions or experience building developer-facing infrastructure

How You Work

• You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.
• You care about correctness, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• You communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, architecture discussions, and code.
• You have high ownership and thrive in an early-stage environment.
• You naturally look for ways to turn one-off solutions into reusable systems.
• You're comfortable working directly with other engineers to understand and solve real-world technical problems.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend the majority of your time designing, building, testing, and improving software.

You'll also have opportunities to work directly with engineers using Restate in production. Rather than sitting behind a product boundary, you'll see firsthand how teams are building with Restate, help solve challenging technical problems when needed, and bring those insights back into the product.

As one of our early engineers, you'll have significant influence over both the technology and the engineering practices we build around it.

What You'll Do

• Build distributed systems infrastructure: Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components. Work on problems involving durable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault tolerance. Build systems that are low-latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scale. Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime. Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platform.
• Build for production: Design systems that operate reliably in real-world production environments. Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues. Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability. Work across the boundary between application code and infrastructure when needed.
• Work closely with engineers using Restate: Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate. Understand real-world technical challenges and translate them into product improvements. Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful. Bring feedback from production users directly into engineering and product decisions.
• Shape the product and engineering culture: Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions. Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for strong backend engineers who are excited by distributed systems and infrastructure and want to work on hard technical problems.

Must Have:

• Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or other systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling
• Strong experience in at least one backend language; Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similar are particularly relevant
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
• Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design

Nice to Have:

• Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or other infrastructure software
• Experience with Rust or other systems programming languages
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with storage engines, networking, or low-level systems
• Experience rearchitecting or migrating production systems
• Open-source contributions or experience building developer-facing infrastructure

How You Work

• You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.
• You care about correctness, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• You communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, architecture discussions, and code.
• You have high ownership and thrive in an early-stage environment.
• You naturally look for ways to turn one-off solutions into reusable systems.
• You're comfortable working directly with other engineers to understand and solve real-world technical problems.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend the majority of your time designing, building, testing, and improving software.

You'll also have opportunities to work directly with engineers using Restate in production. Rather than sitting behind a product boundary, you'll see firsthand how teams are building with Restate, help solve challenging technical problems when needed, and bring those insights back into the product.

As one of our early engineers, you'll have significant influence over both the technology and the engineering practices we build around it.

What You'll Do

• Build distributed systems infrastructure: Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components. Work on problems involving durable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault tolerance. Build systems that are low-latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scale. Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime. Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platform.
• Build for production: Design systems that operate reliably in real-world production environments. Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues. Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability. Work across the boundary between application code and infrastructure when needed.
• Work closely with engineers using Restate: Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate. Understand real-world technical challenges and translate them into product improvements. Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful. Bring feedback from production users directly into engineering and product decisions.
• Shape the product and engineering culture: Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions. Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for strong backend engineers who are excited by distributed systems and infrastructure and want to work on hard technical problems.

Must Have:

• Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or other systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling
• Strong experience in at least one backend language; Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similar are particularly relevant
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
• Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design

Nice to Have:

• Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or other infrastructure software
• Experience with Rust or other systems programming languages
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with storage engines, networking, or low-level systems
• Experience rearchitecting or migrating production systems
• Open-source contributions or experience building developer-facing infrastructure

How You Work

• You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.
• You care about correctness, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• You communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, architecture discussions, and code.
• You have high ownership and thrive in an early-stage environment.
• You naturally look for ways to turn one-off solutions into reusable systems.
• You're comfortable working directly with other engineers to understand and solve real-world technical problems.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll spend the majority of your time designing, building, testing, and improving software.

You'll also have opportunities to work directly with engineers using Restate in production. Rather than sitting behind a product boundary, you'll see firsthand how teams are building with Restate, help solve challenging technical problems when needed, and bring those insights back into the product.

As one of our early engineers, you'll have significant influence over both the technology and the engineering practices we build around it.

What You'll Do

• Build distributed systems infrastructure: Design and implement core backend and distributed systems components. Work on problems involving durable execution, state management, messaging, storage, concurrency, and fault tolerance. Build systems that are low-latency, highly reliable, and capable of operating at significant scale. Improve the performance, scalability, and resilience of the Restate runtime. Contribute to the architecture and evolution of Restate's core platform.
• Build for production: Design systems that operate reliably in real-world production environments. Diagnose and solve complex distributed systems and production issues. Improve observability, testing, failure handling, and operational reliability. Work across the boundary between application code and infrastructure when needed.
• Work closely with engineers using Restate: Partner with engineering teams building production systems with Restate. Understand real-world technical challenges and translate them into product improvements. Build reference implementations, integrations, and tooling where useful. Bring feedback from production users directly into engineering and product decisions.
• Shape the product and engineering culture: Turn recurring technical challenges into reusable systems, tooling, and documentation. Contribute to technical discussions, design reviews, and architecture decisions. Help define engineering practices as the team and product scale.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for strong backend engineers who are excited by distributed systems and infrastructure and want to work on hard technical problems.

Must Have:

• Strong backend engineering experience building production systems
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, or other systems involving concurrency, state, messaging, and failure handling
• Strong experience in at least one backend language; Rust, Go, Java, C++, or similar are particularly relevant
• Experience designing, building, and operating production software at scale
• Strong understanding of software reliability, performance, and system design

Nice to Have:

• Experience with distributed databases, workflow engines, messaging systems, or other infrastructure software
• Experience with Rust or other systems programming languages
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with storage engines, networking, or low-level systems
• Experience rearchitecting or migrating production systems
• Open-source contributions or experience building developer-facing infrastructure

How You Work

• You enjoy solving difficult technical problems and digging deep into how systems work.
• You care about correctness, performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• You communicate technical ideas clearly through design docs, architecture discussions, and code.
• You have high ownership and thrive in an early-stage environment.
• You naturally look for ways to turn one-off solutions into reusable systems.
• You're comfortable working directly with other engineers to understand and solve real-world technical problems.