Software Engineer, Backend, Workflow Runner
mid$140K – $260K
via Ashby
About this role
Profound is building the foundational agentic layer for modern companies. Our Workflow Runner is the execution backbone that turns complex AI work into reliable, composable workflows. You will shape the core primitives, execution, scheduling, state, and streaming, that power intelligent systems at scale.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Build core workflow engine primitives used to orchestrate agents, tools, and dataflows
- Own the real-time control plane, including streaming events, reliable job orchestration, idempotency, and replay
- Ship high-leverage systems that turn prototypes into production-grade, scalable workflows
- Design and ship Rust-first backend services and clean APIs for creating, executing, and supervising graph or DAG workflows…
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Skills match
For this role: rust, sql, postgres, postgresql, redis…
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Level fit
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Domain experience
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