Software Engineer, Infra
General Translation
San Francisco, CAFull-timePosted todayStill listed today
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Job overview
General Translation builds open-source infrastructure and AI workflows for companies launching products in multiple languages. The Software Engineer, Infra will own systems and infrastructure supporting translation runs, including APIs, queues, workers, edge networks, and AI pipelines. The role focuses on production infrastructure and internal tooling, and is fully in-person in San Francisco.
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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:
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Design and scale our production infrastructure for reliability, availability, and performance
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Build internal tooling and dev environments that let us ship fast
REQUIREMENTS:
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Exceptional TypeScript proficiency
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Experience building and operating systems in production
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Willingness to work onsite in San Francisco (relocation required)
BENEFITS:
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Competitive salary and significant equity
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401k with 3.5% matching
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100% coverage for health, dental and vision
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Free meals at the office (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
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Free Waymo rides home from work
How this job compares
Set against the 41,554 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- California median$165–249K/yr7,770 salary ranges
- California median$46–65/hr158 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,674 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,554 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (34,072 postings).
- Education
- 13,032 of the 41,554 open Software Engineer jobs (31%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
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