Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API
Deepgram · USA - Remote
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## Sr. Backend Engineer — Engine Team: API ### Company Overview Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for **speech-to-text (STT)**, **text-to-speech (TTS)**, and building production-grade voice agents at scale. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are available via cloud APIs or self-hosted/on-premises software. ### Company Operating Rhythm - **AI-first mindset**: AI use and experimentation are core to how work is done. - **Move at the pace of AI**: expect rapid change and continuous learning. - **Measure impact**: success includes effective and creative application of the latest AI capabilities. --- ### Opportunity Deepgram is looking for a **Backend Software Engineer** to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s products—building **secure, robust, scalable services** for speech processing, distributed compute orchestration, optimized scheduling, and more. You’ll help drive high-impact products from start to finish, with a focus on reusable engineering and delightful user experiences. --- ### What You’ll Do - Improve Deepgram’s core inference services across **networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency/memory optimization** - Develop processes for **measuring, building, and optimizing** services to maximize system performance - Debug complex system issues involving **networking, scheduling, and high-performance computing interactions** - Rapidly customize backend services to support customer needs - Partner with Product to design and implement new services/features/products end-to-end --- ### You’ll Love This Role If You - Thrive in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment where learning on-the-fly is expected - Enjoy balancing product/feature maturity decisions (when to make minimally invasive changes vs. when to do deeper design work) --- ### It’s Important To Us That You Have - **3+ years** of experience in an industry role - Programming experience in **Rust** (or **C/C++**), with competence in **Python** - Excellent **written and verbal communication** and strong organizational skills - Strong experience with **version control** (preferably **git**) - Comprehensive experience with **UNIX-style systems** --- ### It Would Be Great if You Had - Experience with modern machine learning (e.g., **Torch**) and/or implementation knowledge of **CNNs, RNNs, and transformers** - Experience with **audio processing** --- ### Security / Recruiting Notice Deepgram is aware of individuals impersonating recruiters. Legitimate recruiting communication comes from an **@deepgram.com** email address. If you receive a message claiming to be Deepgram, please forward it to **careers@deepgram.com**.
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