LiteLLM is the world's most popular AI Gateway, trusted by top companies like Adobe, Netflix, and NASA. Our platform empowers developers with secure, reliable access to LLMs and adjacent services. We're searching for a Staff Software Engineer to own product quality across our testing, CI, and release systems.
You will own LiteLLM's product quality across a surface area that spans 100+ provider integrations and a large volume of outside contributions. Your mandate is to make quality automatic at our scale, without slowing down how fast we ship. You'll build the conformance testing, CI, and release infrastructure that catches problems before they reach production, and you'll set the bar on the code paths that matter most.
Own product quality end to end and drive regressions toward zero
Build a provider conformance test suite covering streaming, tool calling, structured output, error mapping, cost tracking, and auth modes
Own CI and release tooling that is fast, deterministic, and trusted enough that a red gate blocks a ship
Build canary and synthetic traffic detection to catch upstream provider drift before customers do
Own release channels so we ship daily at the edge while enterprise stays stable
Do real root cause analysis and turn every escaped defect into a permanent test
Raise the engineering bar through code and review, not through process documents
Experience at a startup (Seed to Series D) with a willingness to wear multiple hats
Built test or release infrastructure for a system with a large external integration surface, or maintained CI for an OSS project with heavy outside contribution
Strong debugging depth: can enter an unfamiliar codebase and find real root causes, not just symptoms
Opinions about what makes a test suite worth trusting
Track record of raising quality on a team without becoming the bottleneck
Open source contributions on GitHub or similar
Own the quality mandate at a high-impact technical company
Deep technical ownership, in the codebase, not in meetings
Fast-paced environment with real scale behind it
Competitive salary and benefits
LiteLLM is a Python SDK and Proxy Server enabling seamless calls to 100+ LLM APIs in the OpenAI format, trusted by industry leaders worldwide.
Ready to own quality at LiteLLM? Apply now!
LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs (Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, VertexAI, Cohere, Anthropic) in the OpenAI format
We have raised $1.6M in Seed funding from top investors (Y Combinator, Gravity Fund and Pioneer Fund), generate $10M+ in ARR and growing exponentially, and are meaningfully profitable.
You can find more information on our website, Github and Technical Documentation.
Salary
$240,000 - $270,000
Location
San Francisco
Experience
8+ years
Total raised
$1.6M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
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A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
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