# Software Engineer Tech Lead

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** Austin, TX, New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $269k – $335k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** ai coding tools, workflow engines, orchestration engines, LLM APIs, mcp servers, agentic frameworks, Postgres, internal tooling, platform architecture, Code Review
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Tech lead setting technical direction and building core pieces of an internal platform for AI compute infrastructure, including orchestration, integrations, and shared systems. Requires experience designing platforms others depend on, high-bar code review, and daily use of AI coding tools.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Set the technical direction for the internal platform: architecture, shared primitives, and the standards other engineers build on.
- Build the hardest pieces yourself, from orchestration and integrations to the data model underneath the tools.
- Review designs and code across the team, raising the bar without becoming the bottleneck.
- Consolidate one-off tools into shared systems that make the next tool a day's work instead of a month's.

## What We're Looking For
- You've been the engineer others route hard problems to, and you've shipped systems that outlived your tenure on them.
- You've designed and built platforms or shared infrastructure other engineers depend on daily.
- You hold a high bar in code review while keeping velocity, and you know which corners can be cut and which can't.
- You use AI coding tools as a force multiplier daily and get agents doing real work alongside you.
- You've untangled a system that grew crooked and left it simpler than you found it.

## Bonus
- Workflow and orchestration engines.
- LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic frameworks.
- Postgres at depth.
- Internal tooling at a high-growth company.

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