Sesame

SWE - Backend Infrastructure Engineer

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4 months ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$175k - $280k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build secure, maintainable, self-service core infrastructure for engineering teams.
  • Architect and evolve scalable, reproducible ML training infrastructure for rapid experimentation.
  • Build and operate reliable, cost-efficient, low-latency model serving architecture.
  • Own and scale the low-latency voice interface and audio processing pipeline.
  • Build developer tooling, server infrastructure, and data infrastructure that increases engineering productivity.
  • Set technical direction, communicate proposals and tradeoffs, and raise engineering quality across the team.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience, including significant infrastructure, platform, or ML systems experience.
  • Production experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters.
  • Hands-on reliability engineering experience with observability, monitoring, deployment systems, and loosely coupled architectures.
  • Proven experience shipping services at scale and managing their operational complexity.
  • Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs.
  • A strong track record of using automation to improve efficiency.
  • Ability to set technical direction, communicate clearly about tradeoffs, and collaborate with engineers and stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with infrastructure as code at scale, especially Terraform; CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Kubernetes-based approaches are also welcomed.
  • Preferred experience with PyTorch, ML training or serving, TorchServe, Seldon, KServe, Ray Serve, or similar systems.
  • Preferred experience with large-scale distributed training and serving systems, data engineering, database design, and real-time communication systems.

Benefits

  • Full-time employee role.
  • 401(k) with employer matching.
  • Employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for employees and dependents.
  • Unlimited paid time off and sick time.
  • Medical flexible spending account with employer matching.
  • Guardian Employee Assistance Program.
  • Competitive stock options.
  • Benefits do not apply to contingent or contract workers.
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About Sesame

51-200 employees

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