# Senior Software Engineer, LLM Platform at Handshake

- Company: Handshake
- What the company does: Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: http://www.joinhandshake.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $176K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/handshake/85f8d830-ee05-4981-af23-e84a3025a946
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/handshake-senior-software-engineer-llm-platform/

## About the role

Handshake is hiring a Senior LLM Platform Engineer to join our Data and ML Platform team. This team supports Handshake’s core career marketplace and Handshake AI (HAI) by building the shared data, ML, and LLM infrastructure behind production workflows.

## What they're looking for

- Strong production software engineering experience in Python, TypeScript, Go, or a similar language
- Experience building or operating high-throughput API gateways, proxies, or multi-tenant platform services
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, and production service ownership
- Practical experience with LLM provider APIs, including streaming, long-running requests, retries, timeouts, cancellation, and rate limits
- Experience with authentication, quotas, credential management, tenant isolation, and auditability
- Experience building observability for distributed systems and leading production incident response

Tags: Engineering