Profound
Software Engineer, Rust, Agent Runtime
New York, New York
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$260kDetected 83 days ago
RustDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentGitSQLPostgreSQLRedisCloud PlatformsKafkaWebSocketsCybersecurityFigmaValuationCommunication
About the role
- Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from
- a black box into a measurable growth channel.
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
- 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
- Evolve schemas and repositories and own migrations, indexing, and query performance
- Partner closely with product, frontend, and data teams to deliver high-impact features
- Strong portfolio or GitHub showing backend or systems design depth
- Experience building or operating workflow engines, schedulers, or agent runtimes
Requirements
- Experience with distributed systems patterns including messaging or streaming, retries, idempotency, and backpressure
- Experience with Postgres RLS and data governance at scale
- Experience working with Rust 2024, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka or NATS, containers, modern CI or CD, and real-time streaming to clients
Nice to have
- Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era.
- As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it.
- Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel.
- Our Agent Runtime is the execution backbone that turns complex AI work into reliable, composable workflows.
- You will shape the core primitives, execution, scheduling, state, and streaming, that power intelligent systems at scale.
Compensation
- For this role, the expected base salary range is $140,000 to $260,000.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are happy to support visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates.
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