Backend Engineer (Rust)

Location: Remote in the US East Coast or Europe. Candidates outside Europe or the US may be considered case by case. Synchronous availability is required from 1:30–5:00pm CET.

Company

hirify.global builds an open-source and commercial multimodal data stack for physical AI, including tools for ingesting, indexing, querying, storing, streaming, and visualizing temporal multimodal data.

What you will do

• Build backend systems for ingesting, indexing, and querying multimodal data at scale.
• Design and develop production systems with increasing ownership of architecture.
• Work with data-intensive workloads where performance matters from low-level interactions to high-throughput jobs.
• Investigate the layers between application code and hardware.
• Collaborate closely with a distributed engineering team across European and US East Coast time zones.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience with asynchronous Rust, or strong experience in C or C++ with motivation to learn Rust.
• Professional experience developing backend systems in production.
• Interest in systems-level concepts and hardware interactions.
• Experience with data-intensive systems, or strong willingness to learn them.
• Familiarity with filtering, indexing, or query execution concepts.
• Good communication skills in English and availability for synchronous work from 1:30–5:00pm CET.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud deployment on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Exposure to Apache Arrow or Apache Datafusion.
• Interest in machine learning, robotics, AR/VR, or simulation.
• Experience with GPU workloads.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with in-person team meetups approximately once per quarter.
• Broad ownership, agency, and a helpful approach to collaboration.
• Work on ambiguous, iterative problems and turn early ideas into robust systems.
• Competitive cash and equity compensation.
• Six weeks of paid vacation.
• Hardware and software required for the role.