Profound

Software Engineer, Infrastructure

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11 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain core infrastructure across cloud environments.
  • Build infrastructure-as-code workflows to automate deployments and scaling.
  • Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for reliability.
  • Manage deployment pipelines.
  • Support disaster recovery planning and high availability.
  • Partner with product and research teams on scalable architectures.
  • Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking.
  • Implement security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure.

Requirements

  • Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
  • Deep experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Strong understanding of distributed architectures.
  • Programming proficiency in Python and Rust, or willingness to learn Rust quickly.
  • Experience shipping reliable infrastructure in production environments.
  • Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems.
  • Database scaling and optimization experience.
  • Expertise in observability and monitoring.
  • Network architecture and performance tuning experience.
  • Security and compliance experience.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

Benefits

  • On-site role based in the NYC or San Francisco office.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for qualified international candidates.
  • Benefits and perks are included in the total compensation package.
  • Base salary range is $140,000 to $260,000, with additional equity and benefits.
Profound

About Profound

201-500 employees

Profound builds a SaaS marketing intelligence platform that helps enterprise brands measure and improve how they appear in AI-driven discovery across tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity. The product delivers real-time visibility analytics, competitive intelligence, and optimization insights for search-like AI channels. The company is privately held, headquartered in New York, and is Series C–funded.

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