Senior Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will own the infrastructure behind the core API to make document understanding fast, reliable, and cost-efficient. You will work across Python services, queues, model-serving paths, Kubernetes, observability, and developer tooling.

What you will do

• Scaling core API and document processing pipelines for higher throughput and lower latency.
• Reducing infrastructure and model-serving costs.
• Improving Kubernetes/containerized deployment workflows, observability, alerting, and operational safety.
• Building internal tooling, evals, and debugging workflows.
• Partnering with ML/backend engineers to optimize LLM/model-serving paths in production.
• Acting as a technical lead for platform/backend projects.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years building, hardening, and scaling production backend/platform systems.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, cloud infrastructure, observability, and incident-driven reliability work.
• Strong in Python, or deeply expert in another backend language and excited to work primarily in Python.
• Have used Terraform/IaC, containerized deployments, and production debugging workflows.
• Highly fluent with LLM coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar.
• Have led projects or small teams, raised engineering quality, and can communicate clearly with founders, engineers, and occasionally customers.

Nice to have

• Built infrastructure at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
• Worked on AI infrastructure, model-serving, agent platforms, developer tools, or high-throughput APIs.
• Meaningful experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, queues, Postgres, observability, or cloud cost optimization.
• Experience with securing agents and infrastructure.
• Comfortable talking with customers or translating customer pain into platform improvements.
• Keep up with modern AI/LLM tooling and actively use it to improve your engineering workflow.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Free lunch daily at the office
• Reimbursed Transportation
• Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
• Up to $150/mo reimbursement for health and wellness spending
• Parental Leave

About the company

Reducto is the agentic document platform for leading AI teams. They provide a toolkit for working with documents using custom in-house and frontier models.