Staff Software Engineer (Platform)

Toma; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the automotive industry is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to manage infrastructure and scaling. This is an exciting opportunity to engage in critical technical decisions and mentor junior engineers, contributing to a rapidly expanding team that's pushing the boundaries of AI in automotive.

Benefits

Meaningful equity

Free lunch and dinner in the office

Free health and dental insurance

Generous travel and expense policy

Monthly $200 wellness benefit

Fun working environment

Qualifications

• A track record of excellence throughout your career.
• Previous leadership experience, especially as an individual contributor.
• Passion for talking to customers.

Responsibilities

• Owning our deployments on AWS and various ML providers.
• Architecting, building, and deploying improvements to our stack.
• Deploying and maintaining self-hosted LLMs and other ML models.

Skills

Exceptional understanding of infrastructure and backend systems

Exceptional coding skills

Strong problem ownership

Great understanding of operating systems

Tools

TypeScript

Python

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Base pay range

$220,000.00/yr - $300,000.00/yr

Why Toma

Toma is the automotive industry’s leading agentic AI workforce, starting with voice AI agents for sales and service call operations. Our voice AI product, built entirely in-house with cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), reaches millions of vehicle owners each month. As the darling startup in the automotive space, we have recently raised our Series A with Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator, and are rapidly expanding our customer base.

We’re a small team of former founders, athletes, and leaders from Scale AI, Uber, Braze, Microsoft, Amazon, Columbia, and acquired companies in the automotive industry who simply love winning. Autonomy is not recommended, but a table-stakes requirement, and we work very hard to maintain our lead. Our team is hybrid, with our headquarters in a brand-new two-story office in Potrero Hill, San Francisco.

Our team and product remain lean because we are incredibly customer-oriented: we frequently travel the country to meet with and learn from our customers. To this day, most of our customers have been referred to us through word of mouth. With our unique advantage and fast momentum in this $2 trillion market, we are poised to take Toma to the next level.

About This Role

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our team as one of the most senior engineers, with experience in scaling infrastructure for high-growth companies. This role will involve owning our infrastructure, modeling deployments, vendor relationships, and compliance initiatives.

You will report directly to the CTO and be provided the opportunity to shape the roadmap, make critical technical decisions, and mentor junior engineers.

Our engineering team works hybrid in San Francisco.

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
• Solving novel problems with no a priori in a rapidly moving tech landscape
• Improving reliability and operational excellence
  
  

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 at a high velocity
• Strong problem ownership and drive
• Passion and drive for talking to customers
• Great understanding of operating systems and distributed systems
• Previous leadership experience, especially as an individual contributor
  
  

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
• Familiarity with prompt engineering and a desire to continuously learn
  
  

Don’t think you meet all the qualifications? Apply anyway. We’d love to hear what excites you about us, and we may have a role that's a good fit for you.

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Free lunch and dinner in the office
• Free health and dental insurance
• Generous travel and expense policy
• Monthly $200 wellness benefit
• The most fun you'll ever have in a tech role
  
  

How We Hire

• Intro Chat (30 min)
• Coding Screen (1 hr)
• Virtual/In-Person Onsite (3 hours)
• Offer
  
  

Compensation Range: $220K - $300K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Technology, Information and Internet

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