# Software Engineer, Platform at OpenRouter

- Company: OpenRouter
- What the company does: The unified interface for every model. Find the best models & prices for your prompts. Backed by a16z and Menlo.
- Company website: https://openrouter.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $215K to $285K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-04-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openrouter/47c2bcd2-f71c-47a6-831f-a4130d607a7b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/openrouter-software-engineer-platform/

## About the role

We're hiring a Software Engineer on our Platform team to own and scale the systems that route and serve millions of LLM requests every day. The business is growing at an unbelievable pace and we need help to ensure our platform can keep up. You'll work alongside a small team of engineers on owning our infrastructure, datastores, CI/CD pipeline and everything else at OpenRouter is built on. This is a hands-on IC role with broad surface area and little process between you and shipping.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering