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 roleYou'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 doBuild 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 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.
Skills Required
- Deep experience with high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems, such as inference serving, traffic routing, real-time data pipelines, or large-scale APIs
- Experience owning a production service end-to-end
- Ability to evaluate cost and performance tradeoffs at scale
- Experience with Kubernetes, GPU scheduling, or inference infrastructure
- Understanding of reliability, SLOs, and capacity planning
- Experience building an inference platform, GPU fleet management, or billing and metering for an AI service
What We Do
Ollama develops tools and infrastructure for running open-weight artificial intelligence models locally and in the cloud. Its software helps developers launch and interact with models through a command-line interface, APIs, integrations, and cloud services, while supporting offline use and emphasizing data privacy. The company’s mission is to make open models accessible and practical for developers’ workflows across regions and environments.
