Member of Technical Staff, Rust Agent Runtime

Profound
New York, San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["Collaboration","Problem-solving","Communication","Teamwork","Planning"]

Build and evolve the core backend for a Rust-first workflow engine, designing scalable primitives and real-time control planes. You’ll own end-to-end services from execution to security, collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams, and ship production-grade workflows that orchestrate agents, tools, and dataflows at scale.

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Job Summary

Build and evolve the core backend for a Rust-first workflow engine, designing scalable primitives and real-time control planes. You’ll own end-to-end services from execution to security, collaborate with product, frontend, and data teams, and ship production-grade workflows that orchestrate agents, tools, and dataflows at scale.
Location: New York, San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering

Key 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

Key Requirements

  • •Strong portfolio or GitHub showing backend or systems design depth
  • •Proficient in a modern systems language, with Rust as an ideal, 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
Experience:SoftwareSystems designBackendRustPostgreSQL
Skills:CollaborationProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamworkPlanning
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RustPostgreSQLRedisKafkaNATSWebSocketsSSEDockerCI/CD

Company Brief

Profound
Builds an AI visibility and answer‑engine optimization platform that helps enterprise brands measure, optimize, and control how they appear across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity and other AI/answer engines.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2024
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