Neon (Databricks) • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$190k - $265k USD
Build high-durability distributed write-ahead-log (Safekeepers) and multi-tier LSM page servers in Rust powering instant copy-on-write Postgres branching.
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Remote Rust Database & Distributed Storage Engine Jobs
High-yield remote Rust systems engineering careers building cloud-native OLAP/OLTP databases, LSM-trees, Apache Arrow DataFusion query engines, and Raft storage.
Turso • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$175k - $235k USD
Core contributor to Limbo and libSQL: a ground-up asynchronous Rust rewrite of SQLite with deterministic simulation testing (DST) and native vector search.
PlanetScale • 📍 US / Remote •
$195k - $265k USD
Engineer high-IOPS local NVMe storage daemons, query routing proxies, and vector indexing extensions in Rust for petabyte-scale relational clusters.
Materialize • 📍 US / Canada Remote •
$190k - $255k USD
Build incremental view maintenance (IVM) and distributed Differential Dataflow operators in Rust that maintain complex SQL joins with millisecond freshness.
SurrealDB • 📍 UK / EU / US Remote •
$165k - $220k USD
Scale SurrealKV--our custom MVCC transactional radix-tree storage engine in Rust--and optimize distributed multi-model graph traversal queries.
InfluxData • 📍 US / Europe Remote •
$185k - $245k USD
Core committer role on InfluxDB 3.0 (IOx) and Apache Arrow DataFusion in Rust: optimize high-cardinality time-series ingestion and Parquet compaction.
RisingWave Labs • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$165k - $215k USD
Optimize Hummock, our cloud-native LSM-Tree state store written in Rust that powers sub-second barrier checkpointing and elastic scaling for SQL stream processing.
Supabase • 📍 Worldwide Remote •
$175k - $235k USD
Build high-throughput Rust change-data-capture (CDC) pipelines (`pg_replicate`), Postgres Foreign Data Wrappers (`pgrx`), and control plane services.
Meilisearch • 📍 Europe / Remote •
$160k - $205k USD
Scale Milli, Meilisearch's core Rust indexing engine combining memory-mapped LMDB B+Trees, Finite State Transducers (FST), Roaring Bitmaps, and Arroy vector search.
Datadog • 📍 US / EU Remote •
$200k - $275k USD
Architect petabyte-scale cloud-native log and trace search directly over object storage using Tantivy and Quickwit in pure Rust.
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