Staff Backend Engineer, Knowledge Graph (Rust)

About This RoleAI processing…

Key Responsibilities

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  Practical experience using AI tools in day-to-day development, with the ability to explain how you structure prompts, validate outputs, and fold AI assistance into a disciplined engineering workflow.
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  In this role, you’ll own core parts of the system end to end: shaping the architecture, hardening multi‑tenant behavior and performance, and making it straightforward for other teams and agents to consume graph capabilities.

Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating production backend systems, with a track record of owning reliability, maintainability, and on-call readiness for services that support other product teams or platforms.
• Experience with distributed data or analytics systems (for example, OLAP databases like ClickHouse or columnar stores, Kafka‑ or NATS‑style messaging, or change data capture (CDC) pipelines), and comfort reasoning about trade‑offs in that space.
• Familiarity with graph data modeling and/or query patterns (property graphs, Cypher/GQL, n-hop traversals, aggregations), or strong interest in developing that expertise in this role.
• A language-agnostic mindset and evidence that you can learn new languages and frameworks as the problem requires (for example, Ruby, Go, or TypeScript/Vue in adjacent parts of the stack).
• What you’ll bring Significant experience building and operating production backend systems, with a track record of owning reliability, maintainability, and on-call readiness for services that support other product teams or platforms.
• Additionally, studies have shown that people from underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to a job unless they meet every single qualification.
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