Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Infrastructure and control-plane work sits at the center of how modern SaaS products become dependable platforms, and this role targets that layer directly. Feldera’s focus on incremental computation over changing data, paired with a self hosted deployment model, places the engineering emphasis on operability across many customer environments rather than a single managed cloud. That makes the Kubernetes and API surface area a core part of the product, not an internal afterthought.
For a SaaS career, control-plane ownership develops the skills that translate across platform companies: designing stable APIs, building multi-tenant and identity aware services, and making systems observable and debuggable in production. The mix of authentication, SSO, cloud integration, and cluster orchestration mirrors the “enterprise readiness” path many SaaS products follow as adoption broadens. Rust adds a systems-level angle that is increasingly relevant where performance and correctness matter.
This role best fits an engineer who prefers platform problems over feature work and is comfortable carrying a service from design through on-call reality. It suits someone who enjoys distributed-systems debugging, clear interface design, and collaborating remotely with high autonomy while aligning closely with product-critical infrastructure.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Feldera
Feldera is redefining how engineers compute over changing data. Powered by an award-winning breakthrough in database theory (DBSP), our platform incrementally maintains even the most complex SQL views as data changes, even when pipelines have hundreds of joins, aggregates, unions, and even recursion. It has allowed leading enterprises to have always-on real-time insights over both live and historical data, with 10x lower cost and 100x faster time-to-production.
In this role, you’ll focus on our secure, scalable, production-grade self-hosted platform; one that customers deploy on their own infrastructure, from laptops to multi-node clusters.
The Role
We're looking for a Rust backend engineer to own and evolve the core Feldera control plane and the Kubernetes layer that runs them. You'll design and build the APIs and services that customers depend on to deploy, manage, and scale feldera data pipelines, and you'll lead the enterprise-grade capabilities - authentication, SSO, multi-tenancy, and cloud integration - that let large organizations adopt Feldera securely on their own infrastructure.
What You’ll Do
Control plane engineering: Own and evolve the control-plane services that orchestrate pipelines across diverse customer environments.
Kubernetes platform: evolve the Kubernetes layer that runs Feldera pipelines reliably, including resource management and self-hosted deployment workflows.
Enterprise readiness: Build and harden capabilities to support security, isolation, and access-control needs of large enterprises.
Cloud & self-hosted deployment: Develop the capabilities that let customers run Feldera across environments, from single-node laptops to multi-node clusters, on their own infrastructure.
API design: Design clean, stable, well-documented APIs for the control plane that internal teams and customers build workflows against.
Reliability & operability: Make the control plane observable, debuggable, and resilient at scale.
Troubleshooting: Debug complex distributed-systems issues across the control plane and Kubernetes layer.
Minimum Requirements
Strong proficiency in Rust or strong systems-programming experience in a comparable language (C++, Go) with a demonstrated ability to ramp quickly on Rust.
Experience building backend services, APIs, and distributed systems in production.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes — building on top of it, writing controllers/operators, or designing services that run reliably within it.
Familiarity with authentication, SSO, and multi-tenancy, compliance standards (FIPS etc.), and the security considerations of enterprise/self-hosted software.
Solid Linux fundamentals and comfort operating in containerized environments (Docker).
Strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to debug complex distributed-systems issues.
Self-directed with excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote team.
Candidates must have authorization to work in their country of residence. We are unable to sponsor employment visas at this time.
Working at Feldera
We’re a small, technical team building a category that doesn’t exist yet. A few things worth knowing before you apply:
Fully remote. Distributed across the U.S. and abroad. We hire for timezone overlap, not location.
Flat organization with high autonomy, ownership and asynchronous collaboration. You’ll work directly alongside the founders.
Fast and honest. We move quickly, decide based on evidence, course-correct openly, and expect you to do the same.
Rewarded for impact, not tenure. We recognize what you ship, the outcomes it drives, and how much you raise the team's ceiling.
If this sounds energizing, do apply. If not, we’re probably not the right fit.
Compensation & Benefits
(Benefits listed apply to U.S.-based employees.)
