🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead the platform team at OpenRouter, owning infrastructure that routes millions of LLM requests daily. You'll stay hands-on with coding and architecture decisions while managing and growing the team. This role reports to the CEO and drives technical direction during rapid scaling.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Hire and grow the platform engineering team.
• Write code, review architecture, and debug production systems.
• Own technical direction for edge, cloud, and data infrastructure.
• Steer projects through ambiguity and unblock the team.
• Partner with leadership on capacity, reliability, and cost.

📋 Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience.
• Strong technical foundation in infrastructure or platform engineering.
• Hands-on experience with coding and AI-assisted development tools.
• Proven ability to recruit and retain strong engineers.

✨ Nice to Have

• Experience with Cloudflare, GCP, Spanner, Postgres, ClickHouse, Vercel, or TypeScript.
• Background at infrastructure-native companies.
• Active side projects in AI infrastructure, edge compute, or developer tooling.

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 💰 Competitive equity package
• 🏖️ Flexible PTO
• 🩺 Health insurance
• 📈 Growth opportunities in a fast-scaling startup

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter screen· 30 min
2. 2Technical interview· 60 min
3. 3Hiring manager interview· 45 min