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Staff Engineer

litellm • United States
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Hands-on Staff Engineer role owning the stability and reliability of LiteLLM's AI Gateway, fixing regressions and security issues through refactors and code quality improvements. Responsible for leading migrations, building trustworthy test suites, keeping CI fast, and raising quality across the team through direct code contributions and reviews. Requires 3+ years of experience owning mission-critical production systems, strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, and ability to find root causes in unfamiliar codebases.

Key Highlights
Own stability and reliability of LiteLLM's AI Gateway for thousands of production companies
Lead refactors, rebuild test suites, and improve CI/trusted releases
Work hands-on with Python and Rust on mission-critical infrastructure
Report to CEO then Head of Engineering; in-person in San Francisco
Relocation assistance and H-1B transfer support provided

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Key Responsibilities
Find root causes of regressions and security issues and fix the patterns that create them
Lead refactors, rewrites, and migrations of core product code on mission-critical systems
Build and maintain a trustworthy test suite
Keep CI and releases fast and trustworthy with a large open source contributor base
Review critical code paths and raise quality through code contributions and reviews
Raise quality across the team without becoming the bottleneck
Technical Skills Required
Python PostgreSQL Redis

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Benefits & Perks
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Equity
Relocation assistance

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Nice to Have
Rust experience
Experience keeping CI healthy on an open source project with heavy outside contribution
Experience at an early-stage startup

Job Description

Job Details

Full-time

$250,000 - $350,000 a year

Benefits: Relocation assistance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance

Qualifications

  • Regression testing implementation
  • Software engineering
  • Rust (programming language)
  • Security analysis
  • Defect resolution root cause analysis
  • Startup experience
  • Software coding
  • Defect analysis
  • Improving system uptime or availability
  • Mid-level
  • 3 years
  • IT infrastructure
  • Production systems
  • PostgreSQL
  • SRE
  • Redis
  • Open source contribution
  • Root cause analysis
  • Continuous improvement for developers
  • Python
  • Providing code feedback

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Job Overview
Posted Nov 11, 2026
Employment Full-time
Experience Mid-Senior level
Location United States
Category Devops
Company litellm
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