Careers

Build the trust layer for AI and data

Join a efficient, mission-driven team shaping the next generation of open data platforms and AI infrastructure — used by regulated enterprises in production.

Why Vakamo

Work that ships and matters

Open-source impact

Build open-source technology that regulated enterprises run in production — your work ships and changes how companies govern data.

Global & mission-driven

A small, diverse, remote-friendly team building the trust layer for AI and data on open standards.

Grow fast

Real ownership from day one — the room and the responsibility to grow professionally and personally as we scale.

Open roles

We're hiring

Rust Developer

Power the data revolution
What you'll do
  • Design and implement high-performance, reliable backend systems in Rust.
  • Work closely with the team to build and scale our control plane.
  • Contribute to open-source Rust projects and shape community best practices.
  • Tackle complex distributed-systems and data-management challenges.
Ideal candidate
  • Strong proficiency in Rust and familiarity with the Apache Iceberg ecosystem.
  • Experience with backend development, distributed systems, or databases.
  • A passion for open source, systems thinking and continuous learning.
  • Knowledge of data engineering or AI fundamentals is a plus.
Before applying, take a look at our GitHub repository and gauge whether you're confident contributing to the codebase.
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Go Developer

Kubernetes operator & cloud SaaS
What you'll do
  • Design and build our Kubernetes operator to provision and run Lakekeeper.
  • Build and scale Lakekeeper Cloud — the fully-managed SaaS control plane.
  • Automate deployment, upgrades, scaling and observability across clusters.
  • Write reliable, high-throughput Go services and cloud infrastructure.
Ideal candidate
  • Strong proficiency in Go and hands-on Kubernetes (operators, controllers, Helm).
  • Experience building or operating cloud-native SaaS platforms in production.
  • Familiarity with a major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure), CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
  • A passion for open source, reliability and clean distributed systems.
Before applying, take a look at our GitHub repository and gauge whether you're confident contributing to the codebase.
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