New York City, San Francisco, and Buenos Aires

Full time

Engineering

• $140K - $300K Offers Equity

Profound is an NYC-based AI startup helping brands measure and improve their visibility in AI platforms such as ChatGPT. We partner with some of the biggest brands and marketing agencies, including companies like MongoDB, Indeed, Mercury, DocuSign, Zapier, Ramp, Rho, Golin, Workable, Mejuri, Eight Sleep, G2, US Bank, Chime, and Clay.

We recently raised a $35 million Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital, with continued backing from venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, Saga VC, and South Park Commons, as well as angel investors including Guillermo Rauch (Vercel) and Andrew Karam (Applovin).

Learn more at tryprofound.com.

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Profound, you'll build and scale the systems that power our rapid growth. You'll ensure our infrastructure is highly available, cost-effective, and able to handle explosive traffic and compute You'll work closely with engineers across product, research, and operations to design scalable architectures, streamline deployments, and improve observability.

• Designing and maintaining core infrastructure across cloud environments
• Building Infrastructure-as-Code workflows to automate deployments and scaling
• Improving monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability
• Managing CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments
• Supporting disaster recovery planning and ensuring high availability of systems
• Partnering with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands
• Identifying and fixing performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking
• Implementing security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure

Required:

• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform)
• Deep experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of distributed architectures
• Programming proficiency in Python and Rust (or willingness to learn Rust quickly)
• Proven ability to ship reliable infrastructure in production environments
• Growth mindset and eagerness to thrive in a hyper-growth, high-ownership environment

Preferred:

• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Database scaling and optimization experience
• Observability and monitoring expertiseNetwork architecture and performance tuning
• Security and compliance experience

Compensation Range: $140K - $300K