Rust Backend Architect for Production-Grade Workflows

Slope; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Profound in NYC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the real-time, distributed runtime and backend services for their agent orchestration platform. You will design Rust-first services, drive scalability, and ship durable workflows end-to-end for production workloads.

We value strong systems design, PostgreSQL, Redis, streaming, and multi-tenant architectures. On-site in NYC, visa sponsorship available for qualified international candidates.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with distributed systems patterns including messaging or streaming, retries, idempotency, and backpressure.
• Familiar with caching and state systems such as Redis and real-time delivery using SSE or WebSockets.
• Strong grasp of API authentication and authorization, multi-tenancy, and security best practices.
• Pragmatic, collaborative, and product-minded, thriving in a fast, in-person environment.
• Experience building or operating workflow engines, schedulers, or agent runtimes.
• Experience with Postgres RLS and data governance at scale.
• Practical exposure to containerization, CI or CD, and cloud environments.
• Background integrating external AI or model providers and securing provider configurations.
• Experience working with Rust 2024, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka or NATS, containers, modern CI or CD, and real-time streaming to clients.

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
• Design and ship Rust-first backend services and clean APIs for creating, executing, and supervising graph or DAG workflows
• Build reliable job orchestration with multiple response modes, including blocking, streaming, and fire-and-forget, with durable state
• Strengthen tenant isolation, security, and access patterns across the platform
• Improve runtime behavior including scheduling, backpressure, timeouts, retries, and idempotency
• Evolve schemas and repositories and own migrations, indexing, and query performance
• Instrument with meaningful telemetry and raise the bar on testing and operational excellence
• Partner closely with product, frontend, and data teams to deliver high-impact features

Skills

Rust

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Caching (Redis)

Streaming

API authentication

Multi-tenancy

Containerization

CI/CD

Cloud environments

Workflow engines

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka/NATS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Profound in NYC is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the real-time, distributed runtime and backend services for their agent orchestration platform. You will design Rust-first services, drive scalability, and ship durable workflows end-to-end for production workloads.

We value strong systems design, PostgreSQL, Redis, streaming, and multi-tenant architectures. On-site in NYC, visa sponsorship available for qualified international candidates.