Software Engineer (Platform)

Toma; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Platform Engineer to manage and scale their infrastructure in a rapidly growing AI-driven automotive context. Responsibilities include the deployment of self-hosted models and ensuring compliance while working closely with software vendors. This role demands exceptional coding skills and a deep understanding of backend systems to drive forward innovative solutions.

Benefits

Free lunch and dinner in the office

Free health and dental insurance

Free trips around the country for customer visits

Monthly $200 wellness benefit

Qualifications

• Track record of excellence throughout career.
• Exceptional coding and backend systems understanding.
• Experience with scaling applications at high growth.

Responsibilities

• Own deployments on AWS and various ML providers.
• Architect and deploy improvements to the infrastructure.
• Maintain SOC 2 compliance process.

Skills

Infrastructure

Backend Systems

Coding

Problem Ownership

Customer Interaction

Operating Systems

Distributed Systems

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Node.js

AWS

PostgreSQL

Job description

About Toma

At Toma, we’re building something unorthodox—a fully AI-driven workforce for the $2T automotive space.

Our small team (from Scale AI/Uber, Braze, Columbia, Berkeley, and Waterloo) spent months living and breathing dealerships to learn the ropes.

We’ve built an in-house voice AI and agentic workflow orchestration platform, grown $100k ARR MoM purely through word-of-mouth, and raised capital from the best of the best investors in Silicon Valley on our way to create the world’s first “ghost dealerships.”

About This Role

We are seeking a Platform Engineer with experience in scaling infrastructure for high-growth companies to own our infrastructure, model deployments, vendor relationships, and compliance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Owning our deployments on AWS, Porter, and various ML providers
• Architecting, building, and deploying improvements to our stack
• Deploying and maintaining self-hosted LLMs and other ML models
• Engaging with software vendors and forming long-term partnerships
• Maintaining our SOC 2 compliance process and leading compliance meetings and initiatives
• Scoping complex solutions for applications that don’t really exist yet, like legacy dealership computer operators
• Improving monitoring and on-call procedures
  
  

Required Qualifications

• A track record of excellence throughout your career
• Exceptional understanding of infrastructure and backend systems
• Exceptional coding skills and the ability to ship high-quality code daily
• Strong problem ownership and drive
• Experience in planning, architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining applications at scale
• Passion and guts for talking to (and getting roasted by) customers
• Great understanding of operating systems and distributed systems
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in TypeScript, Bun, low-level Node.js, T3 Stack (Next.js, React, Prisma, PostgreSQL, NextAuth, tRPC), Python
• Experience scaling a small startup to millions of users
• Familarity with SOC 2 compliance process
• Aptitude for prompt engineering
• Former founding or critical leadership experience
  
  

Benefits

• Free lunch and dinner in the office
• Free health and dental insurance
• Free trips around the country for customer visits
• Monthly $200 wellness benefit
  
  

Compensation Range: $180K - $250K