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Member of Technical Staff, Rust Agent Runtime

Profound · New York, New York · On-site

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About Profound

Profound is the AI marketing platform built for the agentic era. See what your customers ask AI, deploy agents to act on it, and measure the results in a collaborative workbench. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.

About the role

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

What they're looking for

  • Strong portfolio or GitHub showing backend or systems design depth
  • Proficient in Rust 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
  • Strong grasp of API authentication and authorization, multi-tenancy, and security best practices
More about this role

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.

Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.

Profound is building the foundational agentic layer for modern companies. 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.

Build core workflow engine primitives used to orchestrate agents, tools, and dataflows

Own the real-time control plane, including streaming...

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