Openrouter
Software Engineer, Platform
Remote (US) · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$215k-$285kDetected 89 days ago
TypeScriptFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDLLMsResearchLeadership
About the role
- The business is growing at an unbelievable pace and we need help to ensure our platform can keep up.
- You'll work alongside a small team of engineers on owning our infrastructure, datastores, CI/CD pipeline and everything else at OpenRouter is built on.
- This is a hands-on IC role with broad surface area and little process between you and shipping.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve our edge and cloud infrastructure across Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Vercel.
- Partner with engineering leadership on capacity, reliability, and cost across the routing layer, with ownership of the systems carrying production traffic.
- Set the bar and playbook for how we run infrastructure and operations as the team grows - tooling, observability, on-call, and the patterns other engineers build against.
- 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at companies where uptime, latency, and cost matter.
Requirements
- Proven experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and edge-first serverless platforms (e.g. Cloudflare Workers)
- you can move across the stack when the platform needs it.
Compensation
- The base salary for this full-time position in the United States, spanning multiple internal levels depending on qualifications, ranges between $215,000 to $285,000 plus benefits & equity.
Company info
- Ensure we are optimizing for performance when serving LLM inference as traffic rapidly grows.
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