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Staff /Principal Engineer – Core Team

TrueFoundry · San Francisco · On-site

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About TrueFoundry

Deploy, secure, and scale LLMs and AI agents with TrueFoundry's enterprise AI Gateway and MCP Gateway. Rate limiting, observability, and compliance built in. Backed by Peak XV.

About the role

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role designed for an engineer who loves combining world-class systems thinking with real-world execution.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of strong backend/systems engineering experience at top technology companies or startups
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and scalable system design
  • Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and infrastructure engineering
  • Practical experience building or deploying ML/GenAI applications (or closely working with ML/DS teams)
  • Skilled in programming languages such as Python, Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
  • Solid understanding of system observability, resiliency design, and SRE practices
More about this role

About TrueFoundry

Every production AI system, whether it's powering customer support, writing code, analyzing financial data, or diagnosing medical conditions, needs the same foundational infrastructure.A way to route between models. A way to manage tools and integrate them securely. A way to orchestrate agents and enforce governance. A unified compute layer to run it all.

We are looking for a Staff/Principal Engineer – Core Team.

Companies are moving beyond simple chatbots to production agentic systems. These systems route between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and self-hosted models. They integrate dozens of tools via protocols like MCP. They orchestrate multi-agent workflows where agents coordinate with other agents.

The infrastructure to support this doesn't exist yet. You can't just duct-tape together a few API calls and call it production-ready.

  • Intelligent routing with observability, cost policies, and fallback logic
  • Centralized tool and MCP server management with security and lifecycle controls
  • Agent orchestration with governance and guardrails
  • A unified compute layer to run self-hosted models, custom tools, and agents

AI Gateway is the control plane: five composable...

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