Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

📋 Job Overview

Hercules is looking for a senior or staff level infrastructure engineer to help us build the future of AI software development. We are seeking someone who can build and maintain the infrastructure powering our AI Agent, App Builder, App Hosting, SDK, and Platform.

🏢 About HERCULES

Hercules is a company focused on AI software development. Our founding team works in-office in San Francisco, with a very strong preference for in-office work. We are open to remote for exceptional candidates who are willing to work in US time zones and travel to the office regularly.

🎯 The Role

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, and Platform, our enterprise-grade platform that supports 100s of thousands of users.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the infrastructure powering our AI Agent, App Builder, App Hosting, SDK, and Platform.
• Ensure the scalability and reliability of our services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software solutions.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 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.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with technologies: Typescript, React, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Temporal.
• Experience with Clouds: Cloudflare, AWS.
• Experience with AI Models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google.

🎁 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

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Hercules founding team works in-office in San Francisco. 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.