Software Engineer, Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their customers. We built the platform marketers use to understand, measure, and win in that world: the analytics, intelligence, and agent automation that turn AI search from a threat into a competitive advantage.

🏢 About Profound

We went from 0 to a $1B valuation in 18 months. Revenue grew 100x last year. Our customers include 15% of the Fortune 500 like Walmart, Wayfair and U.S. Bank, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. We are backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, LSVP, and Khosla Ventures — and we are moving fast enough that the people joining now are building the playbook everyone who comes after them will run.

🎯 The Role

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will build and scale the systems that power our rapid growth. You will ensure our infrastructure is highly available, cost-effective, and able to handle explosive traffic and compute demands. You will work closely with engineers across product, research, and operations to design scalable architectures, streamline deployments, and improve observability.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain core infrastructure across cloud environments
• Build infrastructure-as-code workflows to automate deployments and scaling
• Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments
• Support disaster recovery planning and ensure high availability of systems
• Partner with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands
• Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking
• Implement security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure

📌 Required Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud platforms, with AWS preferred
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Deep experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of distributed architectures
• Programming proficiency in Python and Rust, or willingness to learn Rust quickly
• Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments
• Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Database scaling and optimization experience
• Observability and monitoring expertise
• Network architecture and performance tuning experience
• Security and compliance experience

🎁 Benefits

For this role, the expected base salary range is $140,000 to $260,000 (NYC and SF). Comp may vary by location. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We are happy to support visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates.