Senior Backend Engineer

Role Description

Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; efficient, distributed compute orchestration; optimized scheduling, and more. Your skill at building highly reusable code that overcomes technical challenges is paired with an intuition for delightful user experiences. You will be a critical voice in Deepgram’s Product and Engineering teams, driving high impact products from start to finish.

What You’ll Do

• Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization.
• Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance.
• Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and high performance computing interactions.
• Rapidly customize backend services to support our customer needs.
• Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an industry role.
• Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
• A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git.
• Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems.

It Would Be Great if You Had

• Experience with modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNs, and transformers.
• Experience with audio processing.