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We’ve grown ARR 6x in the last year to nearly $30M with a team of 20, and thousands of companies run production AI through LiteLLM across 100+ provider integrations.\nWe're looking for a Staff Engineer to own the stability and reliability of the gateway.\nAbout the role\nThis is a hands-on staff role. You'll find the components behind our regressions and security issues, and refactor or rewrite them so the same problem doesn't come back in 20 places. You'll raise the quality of the codebase through your own code and review, not process documents.\nLiteLLM is mission-critical infrastructure for our customers. When it breaks, their AI products break. You'll make sure that happens less, and that we know before they do.\nYou’ll work with our security and infrastructure team and report to the CEO, and later to our Head of Engineering. This role is in person in San Francisco. We help with relocation and support H-1B transfers.\nResponsibilities\nFind the root causes of regressions and security issues and fix the patterns that create them.\n\nLead refactors, rewrites, and migrations of core product code on a system our customers can't afford to have go down.\n\nDecide what makes our test suite worth trusting, and build it.\n\nKeep CI and releases fast and trustworthy with a large open source contributor base.\n\nReview the code paths that matter most and raise the bar through your own code and review.\n\nRaise quality across the team without becoming the bottleneck.\n\nWhat is our tech stack\nThe tech stack includes Python, FastAPI, Redis, Postgres. We're moving the gateway to Rust.\nWhat we're looking for\n3+ years of experience, with a fast rise in scope at a strong engineering company. The scope you've owned matters more than a Staff title.\n\nYou've owned stability or reliability at your current company.\n\nYou've owned mission-critical systems in production and led rewrites or code migrations.\n\nAble to walk into an unfamiliar codebase and find the real root cause.\n\nA first principles thinker. You reason through a hard bug or a large refactor yourself, and you review AI-written code as carefully as any other.\n\nCustomer empathy. 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