OpenRouter
Software Engineer, Platform
About this role
OpenRouter is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance and maintain its platform infrastructure that supports high volumes of requests for language model inference. This role involves collaborating closely with a small engineering team to ensure efficient operations and optimizations across various cloud and edge systems.
What you'll do
- Manage and upgrade edge and cloud infrastructure
- Scale and operate database systems
- Optimize performance for LLM inference
- Collaborate on capacity and reliability strategies
- Establish best practices for infrastructure operations
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in production infrastructure
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS)
- Expertise in large-scale databases (e.g., Postgres)
- Full-stack development with TypeScript
- Ability to act independently and solve problems
- Familiarity with AI tools and coding agents
- Understanding of trade-offs between speed and simplicity
Benefits
- Base salary between $215,000 to $285,000
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OpenRouter
OpenRouter builds a platform that routes and manages high-volume requests across language models and AI inference services. The company is hiring software engineers for platform infrastructure and product development, as well as forward-deployed engineers to support customer implementation and scaling.
- Website
- openrouter.io
Likely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you scaled a production system handling millions of requests. What were the bottlenecks and how did you address them?
- Describe your experience operating large-scale databases like Postgres or Spanner. How have you optimized for performance and cost at scale?