Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform (Rust)

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? 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, tra…