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Site Reliability Engineer, Provider Operations

OpenRouter · Remote (US) · Remote

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About OpenRouter

The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.

About the role

OpenRouter routes almost a billion requests and more than 20 trillion tokens a day, across 80+ providers and thousands of endpoints. Every one of those providers can degrade, rate-limit, change behavior, or go down without warning. Our customers count on us to absorb that chaos so their apps never notice. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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OpenRouter is the leading AI routing and infrastructure layer that enterprises use to access, manage, and optimize the best large language models across providers—without lock-in, capacity constraints, or unnecessary cost. We power the most advanced AI teams in the world by giving them the flexibility to move fast, scale confidently, and stay future-proof as models evolve.

As enterprise adoption of AI accelerates, OpenRouter sits at the center of how organizations operationalize LLMs across research, product, and production workloads.

OpenRouter routes almost a billion requests and more than 20 trillion tokens a day, across 80+ providers and thousands of endpoints. Every one of those providers can degrade, rate-limit, change behavior, or go down without warning. Our customers count on us to absorb that chaos so their apps never notice.

We're hiring our first AI Inference SRE to own the operational health of our provider supply. You'll make sure every endpoint we route to is fast, correct, and available, and that we detect and route around problems before customers do. You'll sit on the Provider Operations team, reporting to the Provider Operations Manager.

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