Senior Software Engineer

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Rivet

Rivet is an open-source backend infrastructure platform engineered for stateful workloads, AI agent orchestration, and real-time interactive applications. Its core technology, Rivet Actors, provides long-running, lightweight execution primitives that co-locate in-memory state, WebSockets, queues, and durable execution workflows into a unified runtime.
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Senior Software Engineer

About Rivet

Rivet is composable, open-source infrastructure for modern AI requirements. Everything we do is built with an emphasis on self-hosting, flexibility, and performance. We believe no good engineering happens in a vacuum, so we work closely with customers to make sure Rivet fits their use case and is flexible enough for their roadmap.

At the core of Rivet is Actors: a primitive for stateful workloads. It provides addressable, long-running processes, SQLite-per-actor, WebSockets, and hibernation. Actors provide a powerful foundation for use cases like agentOS (virtual operating system for agents), Workflows (durable execution engine), and Dynamic Apps (AI-generated app hosting).

Rivet Cloud provides a managed way to run the Rivet stack.

Most of Rivet is open-source (Apache 2.0), self-hostable, and can be fully air-gapped in your VPC.

Code is available at github.com/rivet-dev

What You’ll Work On

  • Rivet Engine (Rust, FoundationDB, Postgres, ClickHouse, NATS): the control plane that powers Rivet Actors
    • Actor orchestration (Pegboard)
    • SQLite & filesystem storage layer (Depot)
    • Durable execution & background jobs (Gasoline)
    • Traffic routing & edge network (Guard)
    • Multi-region Paxos KV (Epoxy)
  • Rivet SDK (Rust core + TypeScript bindings): the SDK used to work with Rivet Actors
  • agentOS (Rust core + TypeScript bindings): virtual operating system for agents with execution, filesystems, orchestration
  • Workflows & Dynamic Apps (TypeScript): thin SDKs built on top of Rivet Actors
  • Rivet Cloud: multi-tenant, edge routing, autoscaling, and observability

Almost everything you write will be public.

AI Policy

We break down our codebase in Rivet:

  • Core engine: no/limited ai for mission critical + “off rails” code
  • SDKs + frontend: reviewed ai for routine + “on rails” code
  • Website: just test the output

Requirements

  • 6+ years on backend or infrastructure systems
  • Distributed systems experience in production
  • Rust, or a strong systems background in another language like C++ or Go
  • Working knowledge of TypeScript

Stack: Rust, TypeScript, FoundationDB, Postgres, ClickHouse, NATS, SQLite.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Unlimited PTO
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