Software Engineer, Platform

📋 Description

• • Software Engineer, Platform role at OpenRouter Inc. focused on owning and scaling the infrastructure that routes and serves millions of LLM requests daily for enterprise AI workloads.
• • Day-to-day responsibilities include owning and evolving edge and cloud infrastructure across Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Vercel; scaling and operating data layers including Spanner, ClickHouse, and Postgres; optimizing performance for LLM inference under rapid traffic growth; partnering with engineering leadership on capacity, reliability, and cost; and setting standards for infrastructure operations, tooling, observability, and on-call practices as the team scales.
• • OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer enabling enterprises to access, manage, and optimize large language models across providers without lock-in or unnecessary cost, powering advanced AI teams globally.
• • The role offers the opportunity to have broad impact in a high-growth environment, deepen expertise in large-scale distributed systems, shape operational excellence, and work directly on mission-critical AI infrastructure with minimal process between idea and production.