Staff Engineer

San Francisco
Full-time
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About the role

Staff Software Engineer, Product Quality

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.

About The Role

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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

What We're Looking For

  • 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

Why Join LiteLLM?

  • 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

About LiteLLM

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!

About LiteLLM

Call every LLM API like it's OpenAI [100+ LLMs]

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Job details

Salary

$240,000 - $270,000

Location

San Francisco

Experience

8+ years

Company

NameLiteLLM
IndustryB2B
Team Size20

Funding

Total raised

$1.6M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

Y Combinator
GGravity Fund
Pioneer Fund

Founders

Krrish Dholakia

Krrish Dholakia

LinkedIn
Ishaan Jaffer

Ishaan Jaffer

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.