Software Engineer – Platform

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Software Engineer managing and evolving edge and cloud infrastructure for OpenRouter, focusing on routing systems for AI. Collaborating with engineers to optimize performance as traffic rapidly grows.

Responsibilities:

  • Own and evolve our edge and cloud infrastructure across Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Vercel.
  • Scale and operate our data layer including Spanner, ClickHouse, and Postgres.
  • Ensure we are optimizing for performance when serving LLM inference as traffic rapidly grows.
  • 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.

Requirements:

  • 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at companies where uptime, latency, and cost matter.
  • Proven experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and edge-first serverless platforms (e.g. Cloudflare Workers)
  • Deep expertise in operating large scale databases (e.g Postgres, Spanner, etc).
  • A full-stack TypeScript shop won't faze you; you can move across the stack when the platform needs it.
  • High agency and a bias toward action. You don't wait for tickets — you see the bottleneck and fix it.
  • AI-forward in your workflow. You use coding agents, MCPs, and LLMs heavily and have opinions about what works.
  • Pragmatic about tradeoffs between speed and simplicity.