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Hercules

Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Rust)

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 staff level platform engineer to help us build the future of AI software development

What will you do?

You will lead the Hercules platform-as-a-service

  • Hercules Database: An enterprise-grade, database-like object model with flexible schemas and fine-grained access controls. Similar to force.com (powering Salesforce) or Airtable.
  • Backend Services: A fast, scalable backend-as-a-service deeply tied to the Hercules Database
  • APIs & SDKs: Design the interfaces AI agents use to build on the platform
  • Performance & Scale: Engineer for low latency, high throughput, and efficient resource use
  • Hosting & Infrastructure: Build and operate the infrastructure that runs customer applications reliably, with strong tenant isolation, observability, and failure resilience

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
  • Rust: build efficient, reliable production systems
  • Data systems: indexing, query performance, transactions, and consistency, etc
  • Infrastructure: scale large, data-intensive, multi-tenant, distributed services
  • Performance: optimize latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
  • AI: able to truly 10x your workflow by being on the 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

Particular to this role

Rust · Salesforce

Rare in Hercules's other 14 open postings.

In most of Hercules's ads

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

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

63% 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.

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