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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate backend services and platform APIs for programmable access to voice network infrastructure and internal platform capabilities.
- Develop scalable services, orchestration capabilities, and abstraction layers for globally distributed voice and network systems.
- Own technical initiatives from problem definition through proof of concept, implementation, testing, deployment, and production readiness.
- Design for scalability, resiliency, fault tolerance, high availability, and geo-redundant global deployment.
- Define and maintain reliable, observable, backward-compatible service contracts and APIs.
- Apply software engineering practices including design patterns, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, source control, and operational readiness.
- Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to translate infrastructure and telecommunications requirements into software-driven platform capabilities.
- Contribute to architecture and system design decisions using technical analysis, testing, data, and trade-off evaluations.
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation supporting critical platform and voice services.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in software, backend, platform, network development, or related infrastructure engineering, designing and building production services at scale.
- At least 4 years of experience developing backend services, APIs, automation, or platform capabilities using Python, Go, Java, C#, or similar languages.
- Experience designing, building, and owning public or high-use internal APIs, including contracts, versioning, reliability, observability, and lifecycle management.
- Strong experience with backend services, databases, distributed systems, and cloud-native application architectures.
- Hands-on experience with Linux-based development and production environments, including deployment, troubleshooting, and operations.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and their compute, networking, storage, identity, observability, and managed services.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with multi-region or geo-redundant deployments, high availability, fault tolerance, and horizontal scalability.
- Strong understanding of system design, software architecture, API design, service decomposition, asynchronous processing, caching, resiliency patterns, and data consistency.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, source control, infrastructure automation, and production software delivery.
- Working knowledge of IP networking and telecommunications concepts, including SIP, RTP/RTCP, and voice infrastructure such as Session Border Controllers or proxies.
- Ability to navigate ambiguous technical problems, develop prototypes and proofs of concept, evaluate trade-offs, and present complete engineering solutions.
- Strong communication skills for documenting designs and communicating architecture and recommendations to technical stakeholders.
- Willingness to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Preferred experience with internal developer platforms, infrastructure APIs, network control-plane services, globally scalable architectures, distributed orchestration, Infrastructure as Code, observability, event-driven architectures, message queues, streaming platforms, or distributed telemetry systems.
Benefits
- 100% company-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees and families with low deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.
- Four weeks of PTO for all new hires, with a policy prohibiting work interruptions during PTO.
- Additional PTO opportunities through volunteer hours and company challenges.
- Additional time off through the Mahalo Moments program for significant life events.
- 90-minute workout lunches and unlimited meetings with an in-house nutritionist.
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About Bandwidth
Bandwidth builds a Communications Platform as a Service that provides voice, messaging, phone numbers, SIP trunking, and E911 delivered over its own global Tier 1 network. It sells APIs and network services to enterprises, SaaS providers, and app developers integrating calling, texting, and emergency services into their products. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Bandwidth is a public company traded on NASDAQ (ticker: BAND).