Staff Rust Engineer — Data Platform & PaaS

Hercules; United States; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Take what you need vacation policy

Healthcare, vision, and dental

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks

Job summary

Hercules is seeking a staff level platform engineer to lead the platform-as-a-service. You will shape the Hercules Database, backend services, and interfaces for AI agents to build on the platform.

The role emphasizes scalable infrastructure, strong system design, and delivering low-latency, high-throughput solutions in a modern stack with Typescript, React, Postgres, Redis, and cloud deployment.

Qualifications

• Strong background in building large-scale platform services.
• Experience designing multi-tenant data stores and APIs.
• Proficiency in Rust and performance-oriented coding.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform-as-a-service for Hercules.
• Oversee the Hercules Database and its integration with backend services.
• Design APIs/SDKs for AI agents to build on the platform.
• Optimize for low latency, high throughput and resource efficiency.
• Build and operate reliable hosting infrastructure with tenant isolation and observability.

Skills

System design

Architecture

Data modeling

API design

Rust

Monorepo

Performance tuning

AI workflows

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Hercules is seeking a staff level platform engineer to lead the platform-as-a-service. You will shape the Hercules Database, backend services, and interfaces for AI agents to build on the platform.

The role emphasizes scalable infrastructure, strong system design, and delivering low-latency, high-throughput solutions in a modern stack with Typescript, React, Postgres, Redis, and cloud deployment.