Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API
Deepgram · USA
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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. With **200,000+ developers** and **1,300+ organizations** building voice offerings “Powered by Deepgram,” the company has processed **50,000+ years of audio** and transcribed **1 trillion+ words**. ### Operating Rhythm Deepgram is **AI-first**: AI use and experimentation are core to how teams operate, innovate, and measure performance. You’ll be expected to adopt new models quickly, integrate AI into your workflows, and continuously push what these technologies can do. ### Opportunity Deepgram is seeking a backend software engineer to **lead the design and implementation** of Deepgram’s products. You’ll build **secure, robust, and scalable services** for speech processing, distributed compute orchestration, optimized scheduling, and more—while creating reusable code and contributing to 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 systems 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 - You enjoy balancing product/feature maturity—knowing when to make minimally invasive changes vs. 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** - Strong written and verbal **communication** and **organizational** skills - High level of 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** ### Safety Notice Deepgram is aware of individuals impersonating recruiters. Legitimate Deepgram recruiting communication comes from an **@deepgram.com** email address. If you receive a message claiming to be from Deepgram, please forward it to **careers@deepgram.com**.
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