Lead Software Engineer, Platform

The Role

The Lead Software Engineer on Platform at Reducto will own the infrastructure behind Reducto’s core API, ensuring that document understanding is fast, reliable, and cost-efficient at scale. This role involves scaling Reducto’s core API and document processing pipelines, improving Kubernetes/containerized deployment workflows, and optimizing LLM/model-serving paths in production.

Responsibilities

• Scaling Reducto’s core API and document processing pipelines for higher throughput and lower latency.
• Reducing infrastructure and model-serving costs without sacrificing quality or reliability.
• Improving Kubernetes/containerized deployment workflows, observability, alerting, and operational safety.
• Building internal tooling, evals, and debugging workflows that help engineers find and fix failures quickly.
• Partnering with ML/backend engineers to optimize LLM/model-serving paths in production.
• Acting as a technical lead for platform/backend projects as the team grows.

Requirements

• 5+ years building, hardening, and scaling production backend/platform systems.
• Hands-on experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, cloud infrastructure, observability, and incident-driven reliability work.
• Strong in Python, or deeply expert in another backend language and excited to work primarily in Python.
• Used Terraform/IaC, containerized deployments, and production debugging workflows.
• Fluent with LLM coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar, and use them as part of your daily engineering loop.
• Led projects or small teams, raised engineering quality, and can communicate clearly with founders, engineers, and occasionally customers.

Qualifications

• Built infrastructure at an early-stage or high-growth startup.
• Worked on AI infrastructure, model-serving, agent platforms, developer tools, or high-throughput APIs.
• Meaningful experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, queues, Postgres, observability, or cloud cost optimization.
• Comfortable talking with customers or translating customer pain into platform improvements.
• Active use of modern AI/LLM tooling to improve your engineering workflow.

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Lunch provided daily at the office
• Reimbursed Transportation
• Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision
• Health and Wellness Budget
• Parental Leave

Pay & Schedule

This is an in-person role based in San Francisco. The role requires working hard and moving quickly.