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What they're looking for
- Hercules is looking for a staff level platform engineer to help us build the future infrastructure stack for AI software development
- Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
- Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
- Rust: build efficient, reliable production systems
- Data systems: indexing, query performance, transactions, and consistency, etc
More about this role
Hercules is looking for a staff level platform engineer to help us build the future infrastructure stack for AI software development
You will lead the Hercules backend-as-a-service
Hercules Database: An enterprise-grade data platform with flexible schemas and fine-grained access controls. Similar to force.com (powering Salesforce)
Backend Services: A fast, scalable backend-as-a-service deeply tied to the Hercules Database
APIs & SDKs: Design the interfaces AI agents use to build on the platform
Performance & Scale: Engineer for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource use
Hosting & Infrastructure: Build and operate the infrastructure that runs customer applications reliably, with strong tenant isolation, observability, and failure resilience
We expect candidates to be incredibly strong across all of the following areas:
Software fundamentals: system design, architecture, data modeling, and API design
Code and codebase quality: write clean, maintainable code. Work effectively in monorepos
Rust: build efficient, reliable production systems
Data systems: indexing, query performance, transactions, and consistency, etc
Infrastructure: scale large, data-intensive,...
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