Member of Technical Staff, Rust Agent Runtime
New York, New York, San Francisco, California$175k - $260kFull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Profound is building the Agent Runtime, the execution backbone for scalable, reliable AI workflows. This role focuses on designing and shipping Rust-first backend services to orchestrate graph/DAG workflows, with emphasis on real-time control, streaming, and multi-tenant security.
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
- Strengthen tenant isolation, security, and access patterns across the platform
- Improve runtime behavior including scheduling, backpressure, timeouts, retries, and idempotency
- Evolve schemas and repositories and own migrations, indexing, and query performance
- Instrument with meaningful telemetry and raise the bar on testing and operational excellence
- Partner closely with product, frontend, and data teams to deliver high-impact features
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience with a 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
- Pragmatic, collaborative, and product-minded, thriving in a fast, in-person environment
- Experience building or operating workflow engines, schedulers, or agent runtimes
- Experience with Postgres RLS and data governance at scale
- Practical exposure to containerization, CI or CD, and cloud environments
- Background integrating external AI or model providers and securing provider configurations
- Experience working with Rust 2024, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka or NATS, containers, modern CI or CD, and real-time streaming to clients
Skills
Required:RustPostgreSQLDistributed systemsSecurity and multi-tenancyContainerization/CI/CD
Benefits
- base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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