LiteLLM Seeks Founding Backend Engineer to Scale Open-Source LLM Gateway Platform
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Summary
LiteLLM, an open-source LLM Gateway with 27K+ GitHub stars and backing from Y Combinator, is seeking a founding backend engineer to help scale their platform. The company provides a Python SDK and FastAPI server that standardizes API calls to 100+ LLM providers using OpenAI's format. The role involves transforming API requests, migrating systems for higher throughput, handling provider-specific quirks, and scaling infrastructure for enterprise features like monitoring and authentication.
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LiteLLM provides an open source Python SDK and Python FastAPI Server that allows calling 100+ LLM APIs in the OpenAI format
Companies use LiteLLM Enterprise once they put LiteLLM into production and need enterprise features like Prometheus metrics and need to give LLM access to a large number of people with SSO or JWT
Your main responsibility will be to make sure that LiteLLM unifies the format for calling LLM APIs in the OpenAI spec
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