Staff Rust Engineer, Data Platform & AI Infra

Hercules; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Vacation policy - take what you need

Healthcare, vision, dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in‑o

Career growth potential

Job summary

Hercules looks for a staff level platform engineer to shape the future of AI software development in San Francisco. You will lead the Hercules platform-as-a-service, building scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure and robust APIs used by AI agents.

The role emphasizes system design, Rust-based services, and high-performance data systems, with a strong in-office preference and willingness to explore remote options for exceptional candidates.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing scalable platform services.
• Strong background in system design and API design.
• Hands-on Rust development for production systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Hercules platform-as-a-service.
• Build fast, scalable backend services and APIs/SDKs.
• Ensure low latency, high throughput, and multi-tenant reliability.
• Operate infrastructure with strong observability and failure resilience.

Skills

System design

Architecture

Data modeling

API design

Rust

Data systems

Infrastructure

Performance

AI

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Clickhouse

Terraform

CDK

Docker

Temporal

Drizzle ORM

Otel

Typescript

React

Hono

Job description

Hercules looks for a staff level platform engineer to shape the future of AI software development in San Francisco. You will lead the Hercules platform-as-a-service, building scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure and robust APIs used by AI agents.

The role emphasizes system design, Rust-based services, and high-performance data systems, with a strong in-office preference and willingness to explore remote options for exceptional candidates.