Senior Founding Engineer (Platform)
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves hands-on platform engineering, including owning infrastructure on AWS with microservices, building ML/LLM deployment pipelines, and managing incident response and observability. You'll mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and scale the platform to create fast, reliable user experiences, with a focus on high-stakes industries like automotive and healthcare.
Perks & Benefits
The job is fully remote with a competitive salary and meaningful equity, offering benefits like a high-end MacBook Pro, free health/dental/vision insurance, unlimited PTO, and free daily meals for in-office work. The culture emphasizes a collaborative, diverse team from top tech companies, with weekly outings and customer visits, and likely requires flexibility for on-call rotations and real-time system support across time zones.
Full Job Description
We're building the AI platform for underserved industries.
LLM usage has seen a meteoric rise in the past year, but there is still a significant gap between agentic innovation and its use in the real world. This is especially true for underserved industries like automotive and healthcare, where outdated systems persist due to barriers to entry, legacy software, and high-stakes consequences of hallucinations and failure.
Here at Toma (YC W24), we are bridging this gap by providing a customer-centric platform to deploy and monitor AI agents, even for non-technical users. We recently raised a $17M Series A from a16z and are building the future of human-AI interactions, starting in the automotive industry.
Our Team
We’re assembling a team of Avengers: engineers, product managers, former founders, athletes, and leaders from Scale AI, Uber, Braze, Microsoft, Amazon, and more. We consider everyone regardless of their backgrounds or identities. Learn more about us here.
About this Role
We’re searching for a Senior Founding Engineer to own and set technical direction for our core platform. You'll mentor engineers, collaborate closely with product and design, and help create fast, reliable, and magical user experiences. This is a deeply hands-on role—expect to write production code, review contributions, shape our architecture, and scale our platform as we grow.
What you will do
Owning our entire infrastructure (monorepo with 10+ microservices on AWS and Porter)
Building and maintaining our ML/LLM model deployment pipeline and serving infrastructure
Owning our incident response process, including on-call rotations and alerting systems
Designing and implementing observability solutions across our stack
Partnering with other engineers to improve latency and performance in our realtime systems
Communicating with external vendors regarding cloud offerings and APIs
Upholding compliance endeavors (SOC 2 + GDPR + ISO 27001 in progress)
Managing cloud costs and optimizing resource utilization
Preferred Qualifications
3+ years of experience in platform/infrastructure engineering
Strong background in system design, operating systems, and distributed systems
Deep expertise with AWS services (ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS)
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Track record of building and maintaining production ML/LLM infrastructure
Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
Solid understanding of TypeScript
Don’t think you meet all the qualifications? Apply anyway. We’d love to hear what excites you about us, and we may have a role that's a good fit for you.
Benefits
MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max (or newest high-end equivalent)
Free daily in-office lunch and dinners
Competitive salary with meaningful equity
Free health, dental, and vision insurance
Weekly team outings and customer visits
Unlimited PTO
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