Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Profound is the marketing platform for the age of AI search. The way brands reach people is being rewritten — AI models like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode are now the answer layer between companies and their customers. We built the platform marketers use to understand, measure, and win in that world: the analytics, intelligence, and agent automation that turn AI search from a threat into a competitive advantage.

We went from 0 to a $1B valuation in 18 months. Revenue grew 100x last year. Our customers include 15% of the Fortune 500 like Walmart, Wayfair and U.S. Bank, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. We are backed by Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, LSVP, and Khosla Ventures — and we are moving fast enough that the people joining now are building the playbook everyone who comes after them will run.

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

What you’ll do

Design and maintain core infrastructure across cloud environments

Build infrastructure-as-code workflows to automate deployments and scaling

Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain reliability

Manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure seamless deployments

Support disaster recovery planning and ensure high availability of systems

Partner with product and research teams to design architectures that scale with workload demands

Identify and fix performance bottlenecks in compute, storage, and networking

Implement security best practices and compliance frameworks across infrastructure

Who you are

Strong experience with cloud platforms, with AWS preferred

Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform

Deep experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker and 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

Experience with high-throughput, low-latency systems

Database scaling and optimization experience

Observability and monitoring expertise

Network architecture and performance tuning experience

Security and compliance experience

Location

This is an on-site role based in our NYC or SF office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact. We are happy to support visa sponsorship for qualified international candidates.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $175,000 to $260,000 (NYC and SF). Comp may vary by location. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.

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