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Hercules

Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

San Francisco
Salary
$100K - $300K
Level
Staff
Work type
Hybrid · San Francisco

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Open. First seen 4 October 2026.

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About the role

What are we looking for?

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level infrastructure engineer to help us build the future of AI software development

What will you do?

You will 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 that's 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
  • Developer Experience, the tools, environments, and workflows our engineers use to quickly and safely ship to production

What skills do we expect you to have?

Hercules's standard text

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 frontier of AI coding
Hercules's standard text

What’s Hercules’ stack?

  • Technologies: 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

What are Hercules’ operating principles?

Hercules’ operating principles guide how we make decisions every day. We take them very seriously. Most of the principles can be learned on the job, however, we do specifically filter for the following principles in our hiring process:

  • We ship. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds up our learning and delights our customers.
  • We strive for excellence. Doing things well is in our DNA. We have good taste. We get the details right. Our outputs are exceptionally simple and self-serve. We’re proud of our work.
  • We are hungry. We are willing to work hard and break through walls to achieve the outcomes we want. We are willing to operate at any level to get things done.

Is Hercules in-office or remote?

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco (Kearny and Bush). We have a very strong preference for in office. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates who are willing to 1) work in US time zones and 2) travel to the office regularly.

What are Hercules’ 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

What’s the compensation?

$100k-$300k + equity (variable based on seniority, equity, and location)

What this role asks for

In most of Hercules's ads

AWS · ClickHouse · Cloudflare · Docker · OpenTelemetry · PostgreSQL · React · Redis

Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.

65% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Hercules's standard text, folded away below.

Read against Hercules's other open postings on this site.

The team: Engineering NEW TEAM

This team is new: its 8 open roles were posted Oct 4, and Hercules had none in it before. You would be one of its first people.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

AWS (8 of 8), ClickHouse (8 of 8), Cloudflare (8 of 8), Docker (8 of 8), OpenTelemetry (8 of 8), PostgreSQL (8 of 8), React (8 of 8)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Hercules's own job board.

Salary context

5 other open postings titled Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure state a salary: median USD 230,000 to USD 275,000 a year.

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