Deepgram

Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

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4 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
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Base Salary

$150k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve core inference services across networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, latency, and memory optimization.
  • Develop processes to measure, build, and optimize services for maximum system performance.
  • Debug complex issues involving networking, scheduling, and high-performance computing interactions.
  • Customize backend services to support customer needs.
  • Partner with Product to design and implement services, features, and products end to end.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of industry experience.
  • Programming experience in Rust or C/C++, with competence in Python.
  • High-level experience and understanding of version control, preferably Git.
  • Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
  • Preferred: experience with modern machine learning, Torch, CNNs, RNNs, transformers, or audio processing.

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About Deepgram

201-500 employees

Deepgram builds Voice AI infrastructure for developers, offering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agent tooling through real-time APIs and deployable on-prem software. Privately held and founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in San Francisco. Customers such as Twilio, Cloudflare, and Jack in the Box use its models to power production voice features; products include Nova-3 STT, Aura TTS, and a Voice Agent API.

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