Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Platform & Scale Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited AI token budget

Take-what-you-need vacation

Healthcare

Vision

Dental

Daily meals in the office

Job summary

Hercules builds the future of AI software development with a platform-as-a-service including a database, backend services, and SDKs. It is based in San Francisco and values shipping fast, excellence, and hunger.

We seek a senior backend engineer with production Rust experience to own performance, scale, and reliability in a multi-tenant environment, collaborating across teams. Competitive pay, equity, and in-office meals are offered.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Rust, data systems, and distributed infrastructure.
• Ability to use AI to 10x workflow and codebase quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead the platform-as-a-service: Hercules Database, backend services, and SDKs.
• Own performance and scale: latency, throughput, and resource efficiency.
• Run customer application infrastructure with reliability and strong tenant isolation.

Skills

Rust

Data systems

Distributed infra

Tools

Typescript

React

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

Docker

AWS

Job description

Hercules builds the future of AI software development with a platform-as-a-service including a database, backend services, and SDKs. It is based in San Francisco and values shipping fast, excellence, and hunger.

We seek a senior backend engineer with production Rust experience to own performance, scale, and reliability in a multi-tenant environment, collaborating across teams. Competitive pay, equity, and in-office meals are offered.