# Member of Technical Staff, Rust Agent Runtime at Profound

- Company: Profound
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://tryprofound.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $175K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/profound/4c29c22e-c6fa-4bde-97ed-79edd5a96cea
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/profound-member-of-technical-staff-rust-agent-runtime/

## 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

Tags: Engineering