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Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Hercules · United States · 1 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$100k–$300k/yrFull-time

About the role

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level infrastructure engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. The founding team works in‑office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush) with a strong preference for in‑office work, but we are open to remote for exceptional candidates who can work in US time zones and travel to the office regularly.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the infrastructure powering our AI Agent, the AI harness that enables anyone to build powerful full‑stack applications
  • App Builder, the interface that makes it ridiculously easy to build, preview, and deploy apps
  • App Hosting, the backend required to scalably and reliably host 100s of thousands of apps
  • SDK, the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps like Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media, etc
  • Platform, our enterprise‑grade platform that supports 100s of thousands of users

Skills

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
  • Infrastructure: scale large, data‑intensive, multi‑tenant, distributed services
  • Product sense: track record of independently shipping lots of changes that directly impact customers
  • Our core stack: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal
  • AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on the frontier of AI coding

Hercules’ stack includes: Typescript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal; Clouds: Cloudflare, AWS; AI Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google.

Hercules’ operating principles: We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly; strive for excellence; have good taste; get the details right; outputs are exceptionally simple and self‑serve; proud of our work; hungry; willing to work hard and break through walls; willing to operate at any level to get things done.

Benefits

  • Unlimited AI token budget
  • Take what you need vacation policy
  • Healthcare, vision, and dental
  • Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office
  • We guarantee you will do the best work of your career here

Pay

$100k-$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location). Compensation Range: $100K - $300K.

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