Software Engineer

ABOUT DUST Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it. Dust is the multiplayer AI platform for human-agent collaboration. It gives companies a shared workspace where teams can build, deploy, and manage AI agents connected to their company knowledge, tools, and workflows. With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done. With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast. We're serving great customers https://blog.dust.tt/tag/customer-stories/ like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, Vanta and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026. Dust is backed by Sequoia https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/27/dust-grabs-another-16-million-for-its-enterprise-ai-assistants-connected-to-internal-data/ with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dust-tt_were-honored-to-be-recognized-on-the-generalists-activity-7359284343929741313-Rq04. TL;DR We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for framing and building high-value features and pieces of infrastructure in this role. As a Software Engineer, you’ll engage with technologies like Typescript, React.js, Node.js, Rust, shadcn, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Elasticsearch, QDrant, PostgreSQL. Dust on Dust: as engineers, we have the incredible chance to work on a product we use every day. [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/4fbed559-3472-4cab-b074-d2e2d34772be/55597adc-82da-45a9-a55d-b0de6356562b/Eng%20team.jpg] OUR CULTURE - Product-First: Unlike others focused on building foundation models, we're laser-focused on creating delightful product experiences with existing LLMs. - Small, High-Impact Team: Join a team of alumni from Stripe, Front, OpenAI, and other top tech companies. We're intentionally keeping our team small and mighty – every engineer has massive scope and impact. - Transparency & Collaboration: Our repository is open source, and we leverage serendipity between team members. We believe the best ideas emerge when the team shares information and insights openly. - Proactive Problem-Solving: If you see something broken, fix it—without waiting for permission. We don't wait for solutions - we create them. - Ship to Learn: We move fast and learn from real user feedback. - Intellectual Humility: We value strong convictions balanced with open-mindedness. Team members confidently advocate for their ideas while remaining receptive to new perspectives and evidence that might change their minds. If new data emerges, we adapt quickly. WHAT YOU’LL DO - Own critical features end-to-end: Design and implement core product experiences that directly impact how users interact with AI. - Scope and lead technical projects to completion with an eye on the full stack and a mind for opinionated prioritization. - Collaborate closely with users: Work directly with customers to understand their needs and rapidly iterate on solutions. - Build for scale: Design and implement systems that gracefully handle increasing complexity while maintaining simplicity for users. TECH STACK HIGHLIGHTS - Dust for Dust: We use Dust for Coding, debugging, knowledge search (runbooks, codebase), incident management, and task automation (i.e., creating issues). - Programming languages: TypeScript, Rust (not a requirement; we’re open to people who are experts in other programming languages). - Other relevant tools and technologies: - Front end: React, shadcn - Backend: NextJS, Kubernetes, Terrafor