diff --git a/src/sentry/profiles/consumers/process/factory.py b/src/sentry/profiles/consumers/process/factory.py
index 48f2c4421cbc..9fd1e5f510a5 100644
--- a/src/sentry/profiles/consumers/process/factory.py
+++ b/src/sentry/profiles/consumers/process/factory.py
@@ -11,15 +11,32 @@
 from sentry.processing.backpressure.arroyo import HealthChecker, create_backpressure_step
 from sentry.profiles.task import process_profile_task
 
+# Headers from consumer are Iterable[tuple[str, str | bytes]], from taskbroker are dict[str, str]
+Headers = Iterable[tuple[str, str | bytes]] | dict[str, str]
 
-def process_message(message: Message[KafkaPayload]) -> None:
-    if should_drop(message.payload.headers):
+
+def _process_profile_message(
+    message_bytes: bytes,
+    headers: Headers,
+    inline: bool = False,
+) -> None:
+    """Process a profile message from Kafka. Used by both consumer and taskbroker passthrough."""
+    if should_drop(headers):
+        return
+
+    sampled = is_sampled(headers)
+
+    if not sampled and not options.get("profiling.profile_metrics.unsampled_profiles.enabled"):
         return
 
-    sampled = is_sampled(message.payload.headers)
+    if inline:
+        process_profile_task(payload=message_bytes, sampled=sampled)
+    else:
+        process_profile_task.delay(payload=message_bytes, sampled=sampled)
 
-    if sampled or options.get("profiling.profile_metrics.unsampled_profiles.enabled"):
-        process_profile_task.delay(payload=message.payload.value, sampled=sampled)
+
+def process_message(message: Message[KafkaPayload]) -> None:
+    _process_profile_message(message.payload.value, message.payload.headers)
 
 
 class ProcessProfileStrategyFactory(ProcessingStrategyFactory[KafkaPayload]):
@@ -42,7 +59,9 @@ def create_with_partitions(
         )
 
 
-def is_sampled(headers: Iterable[tuple[str, str | bytes]]) -> bool:
+def is_sampled(headers: Headers) -> bool:
+    if isinstance(headers, dict):
+        return headers.get("sampled", "true") == "true"
     for k, v in headers:
         if k == "sampled":
             if isinstance(v, bytes):
@@ -50,14 +69,14 @@ def is_sampled(headers: Iterable[tuple[str, str | bytes]]) -> bool:
     return True
 
 
-HEADER_KEYS = {"project_id"}
-
-
-def should_drop(headers: Iterable[tuple[str, str | bytes]]) -> bool:
-    context = {}
-    for k, v in headers:
-        if k == "project_id" and isinstance(v, bytes):
-            context[k] = v.decode("utf-8")
+def should_drop(headers: Headers) -> bool:
+    if isinstance(headers, dict):
+        context = {"project_id": headers["project_id"]} if "project_id" in headers else {}
+    else:
+        context = {}
+        for k, v in headers:
+            if k == "project_id" and isinstance(v, bytes):
+                context[k] = v.decode("utf-8")
 
     if "project_id" in context and killswitch_matches_context(
         "profiling.killswitch.ingest-profiles", context
diff --git a/src/sentry/profiles/task.py b/src/sentry/profiles/task.py
index dd25fa2ca2e7..99df17d9dc9e 100644
--- a/src/sentry/profiles/task.py
+++ b/src/sentry/profiles/task.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 from sentry.signals import first_profile_received
 from sentry.silo.base import SiloMode
 from sentry.tasks.base import instrumented_task
-from sentry.taskworker.namespaces import ingest_profiling_tasks
+from sentry.taskworker.namespaces import ingest_profiling_passthrough_tasks, ingest_profiling_tasks
 from sentry.utils import json, metrics
 from sentry.utils.arroyo_producer import SingletonProducer, get_arroyo_producer
 from sentry.utils.eap import hex_to_item_id
@@ -121,6 +121,25 @@ def _get_profiles_producer_from_topic(topic: Topic) -> KafkaProducer:
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+@instrumented_task(
+    name="sentry.profiles.task.process_profile_from_kafka",
+    namespace=ingest_profiling_passthrough_tasks,
+    processing_deadline_duration=60,
+    retry=Retry(times=2, delay=5),
+    compression_type=CompressionType.ZSTD,
+    silo_mode=SiloMode.CELL,
+    pass_headers=True,
+)
+def process_profile_from_kafka(
+    message_bytes: bytes,
+    headers: dict[str, str],
+) -> None:
+    """Process a profile from raw Kafka message bytes (taskbroker passthrough mode)."""
+    from sentry.profiles.consumers.process.factory import _process_profile_message
+
+    _process_profile_message(message_bytes, headers, inline=True)
+
+
 @instrumented_task(
     name="sentry.profiles.task.process_profile",
     namespace=ingest_profiling_tasks,
diff --git a/src/sentry/tasks/base.py b/src/sentry/tasks/base.py
index b696acbfec37..988172abfc7f 100644
--- a/src/sentry/tasks/base.py
+++ b/src/sentry/tasks/base.py
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ def instrumented_task(
     report_timeout_errors: bool = True,
     silenced_exceptions: tuple[type[BaseException], ...] | None = None,
     silo_mode: SiloMode | None = None,
+    pass_headers: bool = False,
     **kwargs,
 ) -> Callable[[Callable[P, R]], Task[P, R]]:
     """
@@ -127,6 +128,7 @@ def wrapped(func: Callable[P, R]) -> Task[P, R]:
             compression_type=compression_type,
             report_timeout_errors=report_timeout_errors,
             silenced_exceptions=silenced_exceptions,
+            pass_headers=pass_headers,
         )(func)
 
         if silo_mode:
@@ -150,6 +152,7 @@ def wrapped(func: Callable[P, R]) -> Task[P, R]:
                 compression_type=compression_type,
                 report_timeout_errors=report_timeout_errors,
                 silenced_exceptions=silenced_exceptions,
+                pass_headers=pass_headers,
             )(func)
 
             if silo_mode:
diff --git a/src/sentry/taskworker/namespaces.py b/src/sentry/taskworker/namespaces.py
index 374dfdf7cdcb..bfadb09ea488 100644
--- a/src/sentry/taskworker/namespaces.py
+++ b/src/sentry/taskworker/namespaces.py
@@ -87,6 +87,11 @@
     app_feature="profiles",
 )
 
+ingest_profiling_passthrough_tasks = app.taskregistry.create_namespace(
+    "ingest.profiling.passthrough",
+    app_feature="profiles",
+)
+
 ingest_transactions_tasks = app.taskregistry.create_namespace(
     "ingest.transactions",
     app_feature="transactions",