Lead Software Engineer, Platform

Reducto - San Francisco, CA

Hiring: Lead Software Engineer, Platform Company: Reducto Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 10:13:06 Target Skills & Keywords : IaC, Kubernetes, LLM, PostgreSQL, Python, Terraform About the job Experience: •5+ years building, hardening, and scaling production backend/platform systems. Required Skills: •This is a high-leverage infra role. The ideal person has built and operated real production systems, cares deeply about latency/reliability/cost, is comfortable leading technical direction for a small team, and uses modern LLM coding tools fluently to move faster. •We Would Love To Meet You If You •Have 5+ years building, hardening, and scaling production backend/platform systems. •Have hands-on experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes or similar orchestration, cloud infrastructure, observability, and incident-driven reliability work. •Are strong in Python, or deeply expert in another backend language and excited to work primarily in Python. •Have used Terraform/IaC, containerized deployments, and production debugging workflows. •Are highly fluent with LLM coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar, and use them as part of your daily engineering loop. •Have led projects or small teams, raised engineering quality, and can communicate clearly with founders, engineers, and occasionally customers. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!