Software Engineer – API Gateway
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Job Description
Software Engineer supporting API gateway development for Featherless.ai, enhancing AI inference cloud infrastructure. Collaborating on feature development, reliability improvements, and managing infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
- support and evolve the API gateway to our inference cloud, which is responsible for
- authentication and inference to all models
- subscription management and subscription entitlement (e.g. context-length, concurrency limits)
- providing the necessary API surface for applications and builders
- undertake feature development and bug fixes to keep up with clients, resolve user issues, and onboard new models
- improve the reliability of the existing API (increasing instrumentation and monitoring, right-sizing infrastructure)
- respond to availability incidents
- triage and resolve issues of inference quality and reliability
- manage the infrastructure on which our gateway runs
Requirements:
- first-hand experience of the user’s we’re building for (familiarity with popular open LLMs, common clients, and experience building with LLM)
- experience with the technologies and paradigms of the web (REST, websockets, DNS, networking, opentelemetry)
- experience with significant components of our stack (k8s, node, mikro-orm, fastify, redis, mongodb, python, elastic cloud, cloudflare, sentry, otel)
- ability to debug complex issues across a wide stack and build instrumentation as necessary
- desire to work collaboratively as part of a skilled team
- Alignment with team and company values, including
- bias to action
- responsiveness to users (bug-fixes over features)
- instinct to iterate
- subscribing to that done means proven by usage data
Benefits:
- This team operates on Eastern Time
- Remote preference to hire in Toronto, Canada
















