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Toma · 2 weeks ago

Senior Founding Engineer (Platform)

positionSan Francisco, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$200K/yr - $240K/yr
date3+ years exp

Toma is building an AI platform for underserved industries, aiming to bridge the gap between innovation and real-world application. They are seeking a Senior Founding Engineer to own and set the technical direction for their core platform, mentoring engineers and creating exceptional user experiences.

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Responsibilities

Owning our entire infrastructure (monorepo with 10+ microservices on AWS and Porter)
Building and maintaining our ML/LLM model deployment pipeline and serving infrastructure
Owning our incident response process, including on-call rotations and alerting systems
Designing and implementing observability solutions across our stack
Partnering with other engineers to improve latency and performance in our realtime systems
Communicating with external vendors regarding cloud offerings and APIs
Upholding compliance endeavors (SOC 2 + GDPR + ISO 27001 in progress)
Managing cloud costs and optimizing resource utilization

Qualification

AWSKubernetesDockerTypeScriptPostgreSQLNext.jsNode.jsML/LLM infrastructureSystem designOperating systemsDistributed systemsObservability tools

Required

1+ years of experience
Skills: [Next.js, Kubernetes, Node.js, React, TypeScript, Docker, PostgreSQL, Amazon Web Services (AWS)]

Preferred

3+ years of experience in platform/infrastructure engineering
Strong background in system design, operating systems, and distributed systems
Deep expertise with AWS services (ECS/EKS, IAM, VPC, S3, RDS)
Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Track record of building and maintaining production ML/LLM infrastructure
Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
Solid understanding of TypeScript

Benefits

MacBook Pro 16" M4 Max (or newest high-end equivalent)
Free daily in-office lunch and dinners
Competitive salary with meaningful equity
Free health, dental, and vision insurance
Weekly team outings and customer visits
Unlimited PTO

Company

Toma

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Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Voice, Automotive
dateFounded in 2024
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size11-50 employees
web-link
https://www.toma.com

Funding

Current Stage
Early Stage
Total Funding
$17.5M
Key Investors
Andreessen HorowitzAlumni VenturesY Combinator
2025-06-05Series A· $17M
2024-05-01Seed· $0.38M
2024-02-27Pre Seed· $0.12M

Leadership Team

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Monik Pamecha
CEO
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Recent News

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