Software Engineer, Infra

About this role

WHY GENERAL TRANSLATION? General Translation is run by engineers, for engineers. We build open-source infrastructure and AI workflows that help the world's best companies launch their products in Spanish, French, Japanese and dozens of other languages.

The team is ex-Sentry, Meta, Stripe and Goldman Sachs. Our customers already include some of the best engineering teams in the world, including Cursor, Ramp, Cognition, Okta, Profound, and ClickHouse. We’ve raised $27 million to date, with our recent Series A led by a16z.

We’re hiring software engineers who can invent their way out of impossible problems. These people are rare. We bet on exceptional early-career talent with an intense working environment and extreme creative control.

Why join GT? You’ll get career acceleration, ownership, and resources you can’t find at any other company. Our engineers ship from day one, with concrete ownership and unlimited AI token spend. You’ll be joining a generational developer infra company during a stage of hypergrowth.

General Translation works fully in-person in San Francisco. We offer highly competitive salary and equity, and provide top-tier benefits including free meals, gym, and Waymo rides from the office. You’ll also get a top-spec setup (including a 128GB RAM MacBook Pro) and full health coverage.

DESCRIPTION: We're looking for engineers to own the systems and infrastructure that every translation runs through: our API, our queues and workers, the edge network that serves translations to millions of end users, and the AI pipelines behind them.

When a customer ships a release in 40 languages, our systems are what make it fast, correct and reliable.

WHAT YOU'LL DO: Design and scale our production infrastructure for reliability, availability, and performance

Build internal tooling and dev environments that let us ship fast

REQUIREMENTS: Exceptional TypeScript proficiency

Experience building and operating systems in production

Willingness to work onsite in San Francisco (relocation required)

BENEFITS: Competitive salary and significant equity

401k with 3.5% matching

100% coverage for health, dental and vision

Free meals at the office (breakfast, lunch and dinner)

Free Waymo rides home from work