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Software Engineer, Cloud

Ollama logoOllamaYC W21
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
SenioritySenior
LocationPalo Alto, CA
Posted7/9/2026
Engineering

Ollama is the most popular way for developers to access open models. What started as an open-source, local-first runtime is now the largest developer network in the open-model ecosystem: 8.9 million monthly active developers and over 67,000+ community-built integrations. We're backed by Y Combinator, Benchmark, 8VC, and Theory Ventures.

Our team is small and talent dense. We're flat, low-ego, and fast-moving. We like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, design-driven, and who enjoy shipping code.

About the role

You'll build Ollama’s cloud, a scalable inference platform that lets developers run large, capable open models in their workflow. You'll work on high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems — inference serving, GPU fleet management, routing, metering, and the platform that Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise customers rely on to process trillions of tokens.

What you'll do

  • Build and scale the inference platform that serves every request from ollama.com.

  • Design the routing and capacity layer that places workloads across GPUs and regions for cost, latency, and availability.

  • Own multi-tenant infrastructure: isolation, quotas, usage metering, billing, and Pro/Max/team/enterprise tiering.

  • Build the reliability, observability, and cost controls for our team and customers

You may be a fit if

  • You have deep experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems — inference serving, traffic routing, real-time data pipelines, or large-scale APIs.

  • You're comfortable with cost/performance tradeoffs at scale and have owned a production service end-to-end.

  • You've worked with Kubernetes, GPU scheduling, or inference infrastructure.

  • You think in terms of reliability, SLOs, and honest capacity planning.

  • Bonus: experience building an inference platform, GPU fleet management, or billing/metering for an AI service.

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Company info

Ollama logo

Ollama

Get up and running with AI models.

software for running large language models (LLMs) on a local computer instead of in cloud servers

Private companySeries BYC W21In the newsAI-product
Founded2023
HQPalo Alto, United States
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Size
11–50 employees
IndustryTechnology, Information and Internet
Funding
  • Series B · $65M · Jul 9, 2026
Investors
Theory Ventures
News
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  • Ollama Cloud Pricing vs vLLM: $20 Pro vs Your GPU [2026]
  • “I Don’t Need a SIEM, I Have Ollama!” (Yes, You Do!)
  • What I Did with Hermes Agent, Ollama & Local Models

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