Head of Platform Engineering

Reducto; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Lunch

Reimbursed Transportation

Health insurance

Health and Wellness Budget

Parental Leave

Job summary

Reducto is hiring a Head of Platform Engineering in San Francisco to own the platform's reliability and performance. This is a hands-on leadership role; you will code and review with the team while shaping the roadmap, and lead the talent needed to execute it.

You will drive cloud and on‑prem deployments, build observability, own the roadmap, recruit engineers, and collaborate with ML and product teams to scale runtimes and data platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years owning reliability, latency, and efficiency for a large-scale platform.
• Hands-on: write design docs, code, and review your team's code.
• Track record in attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent.
• Excel in fast-moving environments with incomplete details.
• Own roadmap and technical decisions for your team.
• Familiarity with IaC and containerized deployments in production.
• Maintain a high technical bar and apply it to your work.
• Deep curiosity about new tech, stacks, and products.

Responsibilities

• Own the serving platform end to end, including orchestration, pre/post processing, and model inference.
• Define deployment approaches for cloud and on-prem environments.
• Build observability and drive incident response and cost metrics.
• Own the platform roadmap and recruit the platform engineers.
• Collaborate with Product engineering to scale runtimes and environments.
• Build internal data platform for users and customers.
• Roll out new models and deployment capabilities with ML/product teams.

Skills

Reliability ownership

Hands-on coding

Hiring track record

Ambiguity handling

Roadmap ownership

Platform stack

Infrastructure as Code

Curiosity

Job description

About Reducto

Reducto is the agentic document platform for leading AI teams who demand enterprise performance at scale. We provide a comprehensive toolkit for working with documents the way a human would, combining custom in-house and leading frontier models to power efficient and accurate document workflows.

We’ve grown rapidly, increasing revenue 8x year over year and partnering with hundreds of companies, from leading AI teams like Harvey, Vanta, and Scale, to enterprise customers across FAANG and top trading firms.

Reducto has raised over $100M from world-class investors including a16z, Benchmark, and First Round Capital.

The Role

Reducto's platform is what turns a customer's document into a result. Underneath it is advanced job orchestration, document pre and post processing, reliable and fast model inference, along with the deployment platforms that let a bank or an insurer run all of it inside their own environment. We process a billion pages a month, and the customers driving that volume run us in production on workflows where a failure is their incident as much as ours. We're hiring a Head of Platform Engineering that will own the reliability of the platform, shape the future direction, and build the team that executes it.

This is a hands‑on role. You'll be in design reviews, on incidents, and in the code when it unblocks the team, and you'll spend your first few months shipping as an engineer alongside the team before you fully take on leading it. As AI makes it easier to write code, the expectation that you can solve the hard problems yourself becomes more of the norm.

You’ll report to our VP of Engineering and work directly with our founders.

We would love to meet you if you:

• Operating record: You have at least 3 years of experience owning reliability, latency, and efficiency for a platform of significant scale, and you can talk about the numbers you moved and how.
• Hands‑on: You've been in hands‑on roles recently, and you're comfortable writing design docs, writing code, and reviewing your team's code with a critical eye.
• Hiring: You have a track record of attracting, hiring, and retaining top tier talent, and you can point to people you brought in who are still doing their best work.
• Ambiguity: You can find your bearings in environments that move extremely fast and where not everything is spelled out yet. Generally this looks like having done 0 to 1 as a founder, a founding engineer, or the person who started a greenfield project and carried it through.
• Ownership: You expect to own the roadmap and the technical decision making for your team, and you'd rather bring both to planning than be handed them.
• Stack: You're familiar with infrastructure‑as‑code and containerized deployments, and you've operated them in production.
• Bar: You have a high bar for how things are done technically, you hold your team to it, and you apply it to your own work first.
• Curiosity: You're deeply curious and eager to learn new technology, stacks, and products, including the ones we haven't picked yet.

The Core Work Will Include:

• Owning Reducto's serving platform end to end, from job orchestration and document pre/post processing through model inference, autoscaling, and throttling, including finishing an in‑flight migration of the serving stack
• Building out how we deploy and serve Reducto to customer clouds and on‑premise environments
• Building the observability that tells us and our customers what the platform is doing, and using it to drive alerting, incident response, and the reliability, latency, and cost‑per‑document numbers the team is measured on
• Owning the platform roadmap and the technical decisions behind it, and sourcing and recruiting the platform engineers who will execute it
• Working with our Product engineering team to build and scale our agent runtimes and environments
• Building our internal data platform that serves internal users and customers
• Working closely with our ML and Product engineering teams to roll out new models and deployment capabilities

Bonus points if you

• Have served ML models, particularly vision‑language models, at scale
• Have built data platforms for internal users and ML teams
• Have built, shipped, and managed on‑premise deployments
• Have experience with agent sandboxes, harnesses, and evaluations

This is an in‑person role at our office in SF. We're an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly.

About Reducto

Ninety‑eight percent of enterprise data is in unstructured formats like PDFs

PDFs are the status quo for enterprise knowledge in nearly every industry. Insurance claims, financial statements, invoices, and health records are all stored in a structure that’s simply impractical for use in digital workflows. This isn’t an inconvenience—it’s a critical bottleneck that leads to dozens of wasted hours every week.

Traditional approaches fail at reliably extracting information in complex PDFs

OCR and even more sophisticated ML approaches work for simple text documents but are unreliable for anything more complex. Text from different columns are jumbled together, figures are ignored, and tables are a nightmare to get right. Overcoming this usually requires a large engineering effort dedicated to building specialized pipelines for every document type you work with.

Reducto breaks document layouts into subsections and then contextually parses each depending on the type of content. This is made possible by a combination of vision models, LLMs, and a suite of heuristics we built over time. Put simply, we can help you:

• Accurately extract text and tables even with nonstandard layouts
• Automatically convert graphs to tabular data and summarize images in documents
• Extract important fields from complex forms with simple, natural language instructions
• Build powerful retrieval pipelines using Reducto’s document metadata
• Intelligently chunk information using the document’s layout data

Benefits at Reducto

• Unlimited PTO: We believe great work requires recharging.
• Lunch: Receive a free lunch to eat with your teammates daily at the office
• Reimbursed Transportation: Provide us with your receipts and we’ll take care of the costs
• Insurance: Generous health insurance covering medical, dental, and vision.
• Health and Wellness Budget: We provide up to $150/mo reimbursement for health and wellness spending, such as gym memberships, fitness classes, or similar.
• Parental Leave: Work with us to build a leave schedule that works for you and your family

Reducto is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.