HERCULES · San Francisco, CA, United States
Skills: React, TypeScript, SQL, AWS, Docker
About Hercules
Hercules is an AI-driven app builder that helps businesses create custom applications. A small founding team supports hundreds of thousands of active users and a rapidly growing platform. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst.
The opportunity
Work directly with the founding team as one of the first dedicated infrastructure engineers on a team of approximately seven. Take ownership of infrastructure currently managed by the co-founder and help scale reliable systems for hundreds of thousands of applications, while maintaining an excellent developer experience.
What you will do
Own infrastructure reliability, uptime, scaling and on-call responsibilities. Design and evolve systems for long-running AI agents, durable workflows and multi-tenant application hosting. Build and operate workflow orchestration using Temporal or a comparable production system; design robust recovery for partial failures. Manage cloud infrastructure as code using CDK or Terraform, and orchestrate fleets of servers or containers. Design, scale and tune production databases; the platform uses Postgres, Redis and ClickHouse. Partner with the founders to drive ambiguous technical goals through architecture, implementation, production launch and ongoing improvement. Use AI coding tools daily to accelerate delivery while maintaining a high bar for technical quality.
Mandatory requirements / dealbreakers
End-to-end ownership: Has owned and shipped an entire product module, such as authentication/access management, CMS, email, files or billing; experience must extend beyond small features and bug fixes. Production workflow orchestration: Hands-on experience with Temporal or a comparable durable workflow orchestrator, such as Cadence or AWS Step Functions. Infrastructure as code and fleet operations: Manages infrastructure in CDK or Terraform and has orchestrated servers or containers, for example Kubernetes or Docker on AWS.
Required background
Typically 2 - 10 years o…
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