Product Engineer

The role

You will work with founders to build products for engineering teams. You will talk to customers, design solutions, write production code, and ship features.

What you will do

• Build new product features from concept to production.
• Work directly with customers to understand pain points and validate solutions.
• Ship quickly while maintaining a high quality bar.
• Prototype new ideas and iterate based on user feedback.
• Own major product areas and continuously improve them over time.
• Design backend APIs and services using Python and FastAPI.
• Build intuitive developer experiences across our API, dashboard, and CLI.
• Collaborate directly with the founders on product direction and technical decisions.
• Help define and build LiteLLM's second major product.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience building production software, preferably with Python.
• Comfortable moving across the stack when needed (backend, frontend, infrastructure, APIs).
• Strong product intuition and curiosity about how customers use software.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• High ownership—you naturally identify problems and solve them without waiting to be asked.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.
• Excited by shipping quickly and learning from real users.

Nice to have

• Experience at an early-stage startup.
• Experience building developer tools or infrastructure products.
• Open source contributions.
• You've built and launched your own product.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLMs, or developer platforms.

Benefits

• Work directly with the founders every day.
• Build products used by thousands of engineering teams around the world.
• Own meaningful product decisions—not just implementation.
• Move incredibly fast and see your work in production immediately.
• Help define the future of AI infrastructure and developer tooling.
• Competitive salary
• equity
• health, dental, and vision benefits

About the company

LiteLLM is the world's most widely adopted AI Gateway. It provides a unified API for 100+ LLM providers along with routing, authentication, budgets, observability, and governance for production AI systems.