# Backend Engineer, Cloud

Zed is building tools for people who care deeply about making software. We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer to help build the cloud services behind Zed and Delta. The server-side infrastructure powers many of Zed's core features: all AI connections go through this system, as do the collaboration primitives, in addition to cross-cutting concerns like auth, billing and telemetry. We are currently rebuilding our backend from a single stateful server to a fully distributed system, and looking for someone to help lead this effort. Our cloud capabilities are growing faster than the team’s capacity to build them. We need someone who can become a trusted technical partner to the engineers already doing this work: shaping projects, writing code, making sound decisions, and sharing responsibility for the system in production. This is primarily a software engineering role. Most of your time will go toward building backend software, but you’ll also need to understand and help own the infrastructure it runs on. ## What you’ll work on The cloud team owns work spanning APIs, application logic, storage, asynchronous processing, deployment, and operations. Projects may include: - Buil

- **Id**: 3645155
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zed-backend-engineer-cloud>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, AR, BR, CA, CO, MX, AI, AG, AW, BS, BB, BZ, BM, BO, VG, BQ, KY, CL, CR, CW, DM, DO, EC, SV, FK, GF, GL, GD, GP, GT
- **Hiring countries total**: 52
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T17:49:54Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T21:07:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5423
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 15513
- **Name**: Zed
- **Domain**: zed.dev
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zeddotdev>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **WebAssembly** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: region
- **Argentina** — Iso: AR; Kind: region
- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: region
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: region
- **Colombia** — Iso: CO; Kind: region
- **Mexico** — Iso: MX; Kind: region
- **Anguilla** — Iso: AI; Kind: region
- **Antigua and Barbuda** — Iso: AG; Kind: region
- **Aruba** — Iso: AW; Kind: region
- **Bahamas** — Iso: BS; Kind: region
- **Barbados** — Iso: BB; Kind: region
- **Belize** — Iso: BZ; Kind: region
- **Bermuda** — Iso: BM; Kind: region
- **Bolivia** — Iso: BO; Kind: region
- **British Virgin Islands** — Iso: VG; Kind: region
- **Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba** — Iso: BQ; Kind: region
- **Cayman Islands** — Iso: KY; Kind: region
- **Chile** — Iso: CL; Kind: region
- **Costa Rica** — Iso: CR; Kind: region
- **Curaçao** — Iso: CW; Kind: region
- **Dominica** — Iso: DM; Kind: region
- **Dominican Republic** — Iso: DO; Kind: region
- **Ecuador** — Iso: EC; Kind: region
- **El Salvador** — Iso: SV; Kind: region
- **Falkland Islands** — Iso: FK; Kind: region
- **French Guiana** — Iso: GF; Kind: region
- **Greenland** — Iso: GL; Kind: region
- **Grenada** — Iso: GD; Kind: region
- **Guadeloupe** — Iso: GP; Kind: region
- **Guatemala** — Iso: GT; Kind: region
- **Guyana** — Iso: GY; Kind: region
- **Haiti** — Iso: HT; Kind: region
- **Honduras** — Iso: HN; Kind: region
- **Jamaica** — Iso: JM; Kind: region
- **Martinique** — Iso: MQ; Kind: region
- **Montserrat** — Iso: MS; Kind: region
- **Nicaragua** — Iso: NI; Kind: region
- **Panama** — Iso: PA; Kind: region
- **Paraguay** — Iso: PY; Kind: region
- **Peru** — Iso: PE; Kind: region
- **Puerto Rico** — Iso: PR; Kind: region
- **Saint Kitts and Nevis** — Iso: KN; Kind: region
- **Saint Lucia** — Iso: LC; Kind: region
- **Saint Vincent and the Grenadines** — Iso: VC; Kind: region
- **Saint-Pierre and Miquelon** — Iso: PM; Kind: region
- **Sint Maarten** — Iso: SX; Kind: region
- **Suriname** — Iso: SR; Kind: region
- **Trinidad and Tobago** — Iso: TT; Kind: region
- **Turks and Caicos Islands** — Iso: TC; Kind: region
- **Uruguay** — Iso: UY; Kind: region
- … 2 more in the JSON form

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T22:33:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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