Software Engineer, Platform
People Culture Talent7 hours ago
Base Salary
$200k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and scale backend platform services for an AI gateway.
- Design streaming systems supporting partial failure recovery, mid-stream fallback, and response normalization across providers.
- Develop authentication, rate limiting, usage metering, and cost-tracking capabilities.
- Implement distributed tracing, latency analysis, usage tracking, and real-time dashboards.
- Integrate the platform with evaluation data and collaborate with research and product teams.
- Contribute to the backend of Leaderboards and Evals products when needed.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend services, distributed systems, or developer-facing platforms.
- Strong Golang experience and a record of building and operating meaningful backend systems in production.
- Experience designing reliable APIs, service integrations, or gateway/proxy-style systems.
- Senior candidates should have owned and delivered important backend functionality end to end.
- Staff candidates should have extensive backend or platform experience, strong technical judgment, and hands-on technical leadership ability.
- Cloud experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, or another major provider is helpful but not required.
- Experience with API gateways, proxies, multi-provider integrations, streaming APIs, response normalization, or resilient distributed systems is preferred.
- Exposure to LLM APIs, model serving, AI infrastructure, evaluation platforms, usage tracking, billing or metering, authentication, or developer tooling is preferred.
- Experience with GCP, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Postgres, or Redis is preferred.
- Ability to work from the San Francisco office three days per week.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team.
- Culture emphasizing transparency, trust, and community impact.
- Visa sponsorship available.
- San Francisco onsite work three days per week; remote candidates are generally considered only with a strong endorsement.
- Starting salary ranges from $200k to $350k USD, plus equity, depending on experience, skills, business needs, impact, and market demands.
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About People Culture Talent
We partner with investors, founders, and ambitious teams at pivotal moments of growth, helping them build the people, talent, and leadership infrastructure required to scale with confidence. Our team has helped shape some of the most successful growth stories in technology - including GitHub, Lyft, Notion, and Render - scaling organizations from dozens to thousands of employees and advising companies backed by the world's leading venture investors. We bring deep operating experience, hands-on execution, and a people-first approach to every stage of growth. For more information, please reach out to info@peopleculturetalent.com.