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Build and evolve Restate’s durable execution runtime, focusing on distributed systems, state management, storage, messaging, concurrency, fault tolerance, performance, and reliability. Design, test, operate, and improve production-scale backend infrastructure; diagnose complex systems issues; develop integrations and tooling; collaborate with production users; and contribute to architecture, observability, documentation, and engineering practices.

Own product marketing for a technical AI-infrastructure startup: positioning, messaging, launches, packaging, customer stories, competitive differentiation, sales enablement, and market feedback to shape product roadmap and adoption among AI-native teams and enterprises.

Lead PoV/PoC enablement through production readiness and deployment for Restate. Work hands-on with customers and OSS evaluators to build integrations, reference implementations, and operational patterns (Kubernetes, cloud, observability). Drive rollout planning, participate in escalation/on-call rotations, and produce tutorials, demos, and enablement assets while feeding product friction back to engineering.

Lead developer relations to grow awareness, drive editorial content and launches, and support community across Slack, Discord, and GitHub. Partner with founders and engineers to produce docs, tutorials, talks, and educational materials. Surface community feedback into product and run events, conferences, and public moments to increase adoption of Restate's durable runtime.

Open invitation to propose a custom role at Restate, a Rust-based durable runtime startup. Candidates should highlight strengths in backend infrastructure, durable execution, or AI agent workflows. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis; matching profiles will be contacted. Restate operates remotely in Europe and the US and does not sponsor visas.