Software engineer, Infrastructure

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a full-stack software engineer who specializes in infrastructure.

What skills do we expect of all Hercules engineers to have?

We expect all software engineers at Hercules to

• be incredibly strong in system design and architecture across infrastructure, data modeling, API design, and monorepos

• be able to truly 10x their workflow with AI coding tools while also maintaining high code quality

• have a good product sense with a clear background shipping to customers and iterating

• have a strong experience in Typescript, React, Git, containers, Postgres, and Redis

• talk with users, come up with new ideas autonomously, and ship!

What additional skills do we expect you to have for this specific role?

We expect infra engineers to have strong experience building/maintaining all of the following:

• IAM: OIDC, Oauth, API keys, permissions (Ideal: SAML/SSO, SCIM)

• IaC: e.g: CDK, Terraform

• Containerization: Docker, (Ideal: Cloudflare workers, Serverless)

• Observability: Otel, logging, tracing

• Security and privacy: gdpr, soc2, iso, audit

• Database: Blob storage (S3 and R2), Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse

• Protocols: OpenAPI, (Ideal: GRPC/Protobufs)

• DB schema design for RDBMS and OLAP

• Async backend jobs: Queues, workflows

• General microservice and distributed systems knowledge

What are examples of projects you’d lead?

You could build and maintain infrastructure to support

• 1000s of concurrently running dev machines

• 100s of thousands of concurrent websockets connections

• our internal AI agent evals

• backend and database management for 100s of thousands of users apps

• internal rules, styles guides, and other prompts for our coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor

What’s Hercules’ stack?

• Languages: React, Typescript, AI SDK, Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Tailwind, IaC (CDK, Terraform), Docker, Otel, Hono, Drizzle ORM

• 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 them are specifically choices that we as a company unique prioritize and so can be learned on the job. However, we do specifically filter for these principles our hiring process:

1. We move with urgency. We ship fast, iterate, and correct mistakes quickly. Our bias for action speeds our learning and delights our customers.

2. 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.

3. 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. We are politely relentless.

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 in US time zones who would be willing/able to travel to the office regularly.

What are Hercules’ benefits?

• Healthcare, vision, and dental

• User whatever AI productivity tools you’d like

• Take what you need vacation policy

• 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-$250k + equity (depends on seniority, equity, and location)