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Toma (YC W24) Is Hiring a Founding Platform Engineer
We’re looking to hire a Founding Platform Engineer. You'll be the technical foundation of our company, owning our entire infrastructure and platform services. As our first platform hire, you'll build scalable systems that enable our team to move fast while maintaining reliability and security. Responsibilities Owning our entire infrastructure (monorepo with 10+ microservices on AWS (https://www.aws.com) and Porter (https://www.porter.run)) 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 Driving a potential SOC-2 Type II compliance endeavor (it’s easy with Porter) Managing cloud costs and optimizing resource utilization Required Qualifications A track record of excellence throughout your career 3+ years of experience in platform/infrastructure engineering 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 Proficiency in at least one programming language (TypeScript/Python/Go/Java) Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack) Strong background in system design, operating systems, and distributed systems Preferred Qualifications Familiarity with BaaS (backend-as-a-service) providers like Porter, Supabase, Railway, etc. Familiarity with TypeScript, Bun, and T3 Stack Experience in building LLM applications Aptitude for prompt engineering Former founding or critical leadership experience Benefits Free lunch and dinner in the office Free gym membership Free health and dental insurance Free travel around the country for customer visits
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 Driving a potential SOC-2 Type II compliance endeavor (it’s easy with Porter) Managing cloud costs and optimizing resource utilization our team members are top-notch and have built and sold multiple AI app companies, we’ve created a strong foothold in the industry by building a best-in-class voice AI product that has grown through word-of-mouth, and we uniquely understand the problems at hand from hundreds of combined hours working at and studying automotive dealerships in person. We believe that when exceptional people are given autonomy and full context, great things ensue, so you will have an unparalleled opportunity to make an impact at Toma.
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