Profound
Member of Technical Staff, Rust Agent Runtime
$175K–$260K
New York, New York +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Apr 30, 2026
- Location
- New York, New York
San Francisco, California - Experience
- 4+ years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is supported for qualified international candidates.
About the job
Build and operate the Rust-first Agent Runtime that executes, schedules, and supervises reliable, scalable AI workflows.
What you'll do
- Build workflow engine primitives and backend services for orchestrating agents, tools, and graph or DAG workflows.
- Own reliable job orchestration and the real-time control plane, including streaming, durable state, retries, idempotency, and replay.
- Improve platform security, tenant isolation, data performance, telemetry, testing, and operational excellence.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience with a strong portfolio or GitHub showing backend or systems design depth.
- Proficient in Rust and comfortable owning production services end-to-end.
- Solid with SQL and relational data modeling, with hands-on PostgreSQL experience.
- Experience with distributed systems patterns, including messaging or streaming, retries, idempotency, and backpressure.
Nice to have
- Experience building or operating workflow engines, schedulers, or agent runtimes; Postgres RLS and data governance at scale.
- Practical exposure to containerization, CI or CD, cloud environments, or integrating external AI or model providers.
Pay
$175,000 to $260,000 USD base salary
Tools
Rust, Rust 2024, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, NATS, SSE, WebSockets
AI focus
Build the foundational agent runtime that executes and orchestrates AI agents, tools, and workflows; the posting also mentions integrating external AI or model providers.
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