Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will own and scale systems that route and serve millions of LLM requests. You will work on infrastructure, datastores, and the CI/CD pipeline.

What you will do

• Own and evolve edge and cloud infrastructure across Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Vercel
• Scale and operate the data layer including Spanner, ClickHouse, and Postgres
• Optimize for performance when serving LLM inference
• Partner with engineering leadership on capacity, reliability, and cost
• Set the playbook for infrastructure and operations including tooling, observability, and on-call

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure where uptime, latency, and cost matter
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and edge-first serverless platforms
• Deep expertise in operating large scale databases
• Ability to move across the stack in a full-stack TypeScript shop
• High agency and a bias toward action
• AI-forward in workflow using coding agents, MCPs, and LLMs
• Pragmatic about tradeoffs between speed and simplicity

Nice to have

• Existing user of OpenRouter
• Active side projects in AI products/infrastructure or developer tooling

About the company

OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize large language models across providers.