Reducto

Lead Software Engineer, Platform

San Francisco Office · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 206 days ago

PythonDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformMachine LearningLLMs

About the role

You'll work across Python services, queues, model-serving paths, Kubernetes/container infrastructure, observability, and developer tooling to make Reducto's platform increasingly bulletproof as usage grows.
The ideal person has built and operated real production systems, cares deeply about latency/reliability/cost, is comfortable leading technical direction for a small team, and uses modern LLM coding tools fluently to move faster.
Are strong in Python, or deeply expert in another backend language and excited to work primarily in Python.

As the Lead Software Engineer on Platform, you'll own the infrastructure behind Reducto's core API: the systems that make document understanding fast, reliable, and cost-efficient at scale.
Have 5+ years building, hardening, and scaling production backend/platform systems.
Scaling Reducto's core API and document processing pipelines for higher throughput and lower latency.
Building internal tooling, evals, and debugging workflows that help engineers find and fix failures quickly.
Partnering with ML/backend engineers to optimize LLM/model-serving paths in production.
Acting as a technical lead for platform/backend projects as the team grows.

Have hands-on experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, cloud infrastructure, observability, and incident-driven reliability work.
Have meaningful experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, queues, Postgres, observability, or cloud cost optimization.

Have worked on AI infrastructure, model-serving, agent platforms, developer tools, or high-throughput APIs.

Reducto is the agentic document platform for leading AI teams who demand enterprise performance at scale.
We provide a comprehensive toolkit for working with documents the way a human would, combining custom in-house and leading frontier models to power efficient and accurate document workflows.
We've grown rapidly, increasing revenue 8x year over year and partnering with hundreds of companies, from leading AI teams like Harvey, Vanta, and Scale, to enterprise customers across FAANG and top trading firms.
Reducto has raised over $100M from world-class investors including a16z, Benchmark, and First Round Capital.
As the Lead Software
Have led projects or small teams, raised engineering quality, and can communicate clearly with founders, engineers, and occasionally customers.
Are comfortable talking with customers or translating customer pain into platform improvements.
We're an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly.
At Reducto, we're invested in the well-being and growth of our team.
Are highly fluent with LLM coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar, and use them as part of your daily engineering loop.

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