Toma
AI Workforce for Automotive Dealerships
Founding Platform Engineer 🛠️
About the role
We’re looking to hire a Founding Platform Engineer.
You'll be the technical foundation of our company, owning our entire infrastructure and platform services. As our first platform hire, you'll build scalable systems that enable our team to move fast while maintaining reliability and security.
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
- Driving a potential SOC-2 Type II compliance endeavor (it’s easy with Porter)
- Managing cloud costs and optimizing resource utilization
Required Qualifications
- A track record of excellence throughout your career
- 3+ years of experience in platform/infrastructure engineering
- 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
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (TypeScript/Python/Go/Java)
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Strong background in system design, operating systems, and distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with BaaS (backend-as-a-service) providers like Porter, Supabase, Railway, etc.
- Familiarity with TypeScript, Bun, and T3 Stack
- Experience in building LLM applications
- Aptitude for prompt engineering
- Former founding or critical leadership experience
Benefits
- Free lunch and dinner in the office
- Free gym membership
- Free health and dental insurance
- Free travel around the country for customer visits
About the interview
- Meet with Anthony (CTO)
- 1.5-hour virtual screener (problem-solving, system design)
- 6-hour virtual/in-person on-site
- Offer/no offer
About Toma
Summary
At Toma, we will build an end-to-end AI workforce for the 1.5T automotive industry.
Our largest customers spend over 1.5B on processes that can already be automated with AI, from customer service, to repair order management, to warranty processing, to sales.
We are uniquely positioned to capitalize on this space because:
- our team members are top-notch and have built and sold multiple AI app companies,
- we’ve created a strong foothold in the industry by building a best-in-class voice AI product that has grown through word-of-mouth,
- and we uniquely understand the problems at hand from hundreds of combined hours working at and studying automotive dealerships in person.
How We Operate
We work like a team. Each individual is responsible for driving solutions to their respective problems with the best possible approaches. Everyone is held accountable.
We expect you to drink from the information firehose, and you will have full autonomy when making decisions. We are a no-BS workplace where the best data-supported idea always wins, and we like to move quickly.
We believe that when exceptional people are given autonomy and full context, great things ensue, so you will have an unparalleled opportunity to make an impact at Toma.
Location
We work in-office 5 days a week in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco. We’re 4 blocks from YC.
