Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Rust)
Staff-level platform engineer in San Francisco to lead Hercules' platform-as-a-service: a database-like object store, scalable backend services, APIs/SDKs for AI agents, and the multi-tenant infrastructure to run customer apps. Core stack is Rust, TypeScript/React, Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, and AWS/Cloudflare.
- Compensation
- $100K–$300K / yr
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Data engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, API design
- Write clean, maintainable code; work effectively in monorepos
- Rust: build efficient, reliable production systems
- Data systems: indexing, query performance, transactions, consistency
- Infrastructure: scale large, data-intensive, multi-tenant, distributed services
- Performance: optimize latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
- AI: able to 10x workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding
- Willing to work hard and operate at any level (hiring principle: hungry)
Full description
What are we looking for?
Hercules is looking for a staff level platform engineer to help us build the future of AI software development
What will you do?
You will lead the Hercules platform-as-a-service
- Hercules Database: An enterprise-grade, database-like object model with flexible schemas and fine-grained access controls. Similar to force.com (powering Salesforce) or Airtable.
- Backend Services: A fast, scalable backend-as-a-service deeply tied to the Hercules Database
- APIs & SDKs: Design the interfaces AI agents use to build on the platform
- Performance & Scale: Engineer for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource use
- Hosting & Infrastructure: Build and operate the infrastructure that runs customer applications reliably, with strong tenant isolation, observability, and failure resilience
What skills do we expect you to have?
We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:
- Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
- Rust: build efficient, reliable production systems
- Data systems: indexing, query performance, transactions, and consistency, etc
- Infrastructure: scale large, data-intensive, multi-tenant, distributed services
- Performance: optimize latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
- AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding
What’s Hercules’ stack?
- Technologies: Typescript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal
- Clouds: Cloudflare, AWS
- AI Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
What are Hercules’ operating principles?
Hercules’ operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of the principles can be learned on the job, however, we do specifically filter for the following principles in our hiring process:
- We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.