Shuttle is the cloud infrastructure platform for developers building with Cursor and GitHub Copilot. We make it simple to ship reliable and scalable backends, so developers can focus on creating great products.

Over 20,000 developers use Shuttle to build and deploy Rust backends in minutes, and we’re now bringing the same zero-config experience to every developer. As AI tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot accelerate coding, infrastructure is becoming the bottleneck - Shuttle removes it.

Our Mission 🎯

At Shuttle, we’re on a mission to revolutionise developer experience for building web apps. Everything we do is about crafting an exceptionally simple, satisfying and effective way to do cloud development. We are open source community-driven and loved by thousands of engineers. Our vision: the ultimate platform to supercharge developers’ productivity.

Working With Us 😎

We’re a growth mindset company. We’re honest, open-minded, driven, and ambitious and we are only looking for people who share these qualities with us. Read more about our values here

Perks 🎁

• Remote-friendly, flexible working hours and workdays
• Flexible holidays and paid time off
• Mental and physical health stipend
• Educational and self-development budget
• Support for attending and presenting at relevant conferences
• Health insurance
• Awesome work-from-home setup & equipment
• Regular company off-sites
• Weekly remote-friendly socials (games and more)

Job Description:

This is a hands-on role, with the majority of your time dedicated to individual contribution.

1. Autonomy: you will be part of driving the technical vision for Shuttle, balancing current concerns with future opportunities and directions. You will be involved in platform decisions and have a direct and material influence on the company.
2. Scalability and Performance: Scale the Shuttle platform to hundreds of thousands of users ensuring a high level of operability and observability.
3. Code Quality: Uphold code best practices, maintainability, and documentation.
4. Customer Success: play a role in delivering successful outcomes for customers.

Must Haves:

• 3+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, writing maintainable application code for scalable services on AWS
• Experience as a senior member of a startup/scale-up team.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate across both technical and non-technical teams.
• Expertise in how to build and operate highly available, scalable, cost-effective and secure systems (5+ yr). We want Shuttle to be dependable and serve as the rock on top of which our customers build their products bearing in mind a cloud platform is the foundation of a technology stack.
• Experience in cloud-native architecture as well as a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructural primitives (5+ yr).
• Experience diagnosing and root-causing issues with distributed web services
• Experience monitoring and maintaining applications in production, applying SRE & CI/CD best practices
• Experience with AWS (e.g ECS, Fargate, EC2, RDS, Networking, CloudWatch, S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda) (2+ yr)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform) and continuous deployment to production using CI/CD best practices
• Able to pick up new technologies/skills and has a growth mindset with recent evidence.

Bonus points:

• Experience with front-end development (e.g React, Typescript)
• Experience using the Rust programming language, either professionally or on hobby projects
• Experience building or operating a platform as a service