Software Engineer, Rust, Agent Runtime
ProfoundAI Marketing company
New York, United States$140K - $260KSenior
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Sequoia Capital
Kleiner Perkins
Evantic
Saga Ventures
South Park Commons
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Shape the core primitives for intelligent systems at scale.
- •Profound is building the foundational agentic layer for modern companies.
- •You will shape the core primitives, execution, scheduling, state, and streaming, that power intelligent systems at scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Build core workflow engine primitives used to orchestrate agents, tools, and dataflows Own the real-time control plane, including streaming events, reliable job orchestration, idempotency, and replay Ship high-leverage systems that turn prototypes into production-grade, scalable workflows Requirements Strong portfolio or GitHub showing backend or systems design depth Proficient in Rust and comfortable owning services end-to-end in production Solid with SQL and relational data modeling, with hands-on experience using PostgreSQL
Required skills
RustPostgreSQLSQL
Nice-to-have skills
RedisWebSocketsCI/CD
Benefits & perks
equity, health insurance, visa sponsorship
Tech stack
RustPostgreSQLRedisCI/CD