# Software Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [OpenRouter](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openrouter)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $215k – $285k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** GCP, Cloudflare Workers, Spanner, ClickHouse, Postgres, TypeScript, AWS, Azure, Llm Inference
**Posted:** 2026-04-23

> Owns and scales platform infrastructure including edge/cloud services on Cloudflare, GCP, Vercel and data layers like Spanner, ClickHouse, Postgres to serve millions of LLM requests daily. Requires 5+ years in production infrastructure with cloud platforms, databases, and full-stack TypeScript expertise.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- Own and evolve our edge and cloud infrastructure across Cloudflare, Google Cloud, and Vercel.
- Scale and operate our data layer including Spanner, ClickHouse, and Postgres.
- Ensure we are optimizing for performance when serving LLM inference as traffic rapidly grows.
- Partner with engineering leadership on capacity, reliability, and cost across the routing layer, with ownership of the systems carrying production traffic.
- Set the bar and playbook for how we run infrastructure and operations as the team grows — tooling, observability, on-call, and the patterns other engineers build against.

## About You

- 5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at companies where uptime, latency, and cost matter.
- Proven experience with cloud platforms (**GCP**, **AWS**, **Azure**) and edge-first serverless platforms (e.g. **Cloudflare Workers**).
- Deep expertise in operating large scale databases (e.g **Postgres**, **Spanner**, etc).
- A full-stack **TypeScript** shop won't faze you; you can move across the stack when the platform needs it.
- High agency and a bias toward action. You don't wait for tickets — you see the bottleneck and fix it.
- AI-forward in your workflow. You use coding agents, MCPs, and LLMs heavily and have opinions about what works.
- Pragmatic about tradeoffs between speed and simplicity.

## Bonus Points

- Existing user of OpenRouter, or active side projects in AI products/infrastructure or developer tooling.

**Compensation**: Base salary $215,000 - $285,000 plus benefits & equity (US full-time). International compensation varies by local market.

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