Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure
About the role
Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level infrastructure engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. You will build and maintain the infrastructure powering our AI Agent, the AI harness that enables anyone to build powerful full-stack applications. The role is hybrid‑based in San Francisco, California.
Responsibilities
- 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 hundreds of thousands of apps
- SDK – the headless SaaS that users can integrate into their apps (e.g., Hercules Commerce, Hercules Auth, Hercules CMS, Hercules Files & Media)
- Platform – our enterprise‑grade platform that supports hundreds of thousands of users
Requirements
- 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
Core stack: TypeScript, React, containers, Postgres, Redis, Temporal. AI expertise to 10× your workflow via frontier AI coding. Technologies include 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, strive for excellence, have good taste, are proud of our work, are hungry to work hard and break through walls, and operate at any level to get things done.
Pay
USD 100,000 – 300,000 per annum.
Schedule
Full‑time.