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Software Engineer, Platform

Reducto· Platform
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San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Infra-focused software engineering role responsible for scaling and optimizing Reducto’s core API, document processing pipelines, and production backend systems with emphasis on latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Scaling Reducto’s core API and document processing pipelines for higher throughput and lower latency.
  • Reducing infrastructure and model-serving costs without sacrificing quality or reliability.
  • Improving Kubernetes/containerized deployment workflows, observability, alerting, and operational safety.
  • Building internal tooling, evals, and debugging workflows that help engineers find and fix failures quickly.
  • Partnering with ML/backend engineers to optimize LLM/model-serving paths in production.
  • Acting as a technical lead for platform/backend projects as the team grows.

Qualifications

  • Have 5+ years building, hardening, and scaling production backend/platform systems.
  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, cloud infrastructure, observability, and incident-driven reliability work.
  • Strong Python skills, or deeply expert in another backend language and comfortable using Python.
  • Experience with Terraform/IaC, containerized deployments, and production debugging workflows.
  • Fluency with LLM coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar, used in daily engineering workflow.
  • Experience leading projects or small teams, raising engineering quality, and clear communication with founders, engineers, and occasionally customers.

Skills

Required:PythonDistributed systemsKubernetesTerraform / IaCLLM tooling

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO: We believe great work requires recharging.
  • Lunch: Receive a free lunch to eat with your teammates daily at the office.
  • Reimbursed Transportation: Provide us with your receipts and we’ll take care of the costs.
  • Insurance: Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision.
  • Health and Wellness Budget: Up to $150/mo reimbursement for health and wellness spending.
  • Parental Leave: Flexible leave schedules to accommodate family needs.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Reducto

The most accurate API to parse documents

Reducto offers robust and reliable document ingestion for any workflow. Our API allows you to convert complex, unstructured documents into structured outputs that are perfect for RAG, process automation, and more.

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