Staff Software Engineer, Console
Deepgram · USA - Remote
About this role
## Staff Software Engineer, Console ### Company Overview Deepgram is bringing the world’s most natural interface—voice—to the technology we use every day. Their speech models and real-time infrastructure power AI systems that keep up with how people actually speak. Deepgram’s Voice Agent Platform combines speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and speech-to-speech, with voice-native foundation models available via cloud APIs or self-hosted/on-prem deployments. **Operating Principles** - **Compress before you communicate** - **Resist entropy** - **Solve the category** - **Work at the frontier** **AI-FIRST BY DEFAULT** They build AI that millions of people talk to, and they run the company the same way—expecting you to build, own outcomes, spend time at the frontier, and keep pace with changing models/tools. --- ### The Opportunity Deepgram is seeking a **Staff Software Engineer** to be the **technical lead of the Console team**. The **Console team** owns the product surfaces that help developers discover, test, and adopt Deepgram, including: - Customer-facing experiences like **Console** and **Playground** - **Account management** (authorization, billing, analytics) - Agentic tooling integrations like **MCP servers** and **SDK experiences** - Internal tools supporting teams across the company As a Staff engineer, you’ll set technical direction for the self-serve platform and lead large, high-priority, cross-functional projects that shape product-led growth. --- ### What You’ll Do - Set the **technical strategy and architecture** for Console, Playground, account management services, and agentic developer tooling. - Lead **large, high-priority cross-functional projects** from ambiguous idea to launch. - Partner with senior leaders across **Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, and Marketing** on roadmap and direction. - Work with the engineering manager and product leadership to translate priorities into **incrementally releasable work**. - Build and ship **full-stack features** (polished UI + APIs/backend services). - Drive the technical foundation of the **self-serve growth engine** (activation funnels, upgrade flows, usage-based billing instrumentation, PLG experimentation). - Shape how developers use Deepgram via **AI tools** (MCP servers, SDK experiences, AI agent playgrounds, LLM-powered developer tooling). - Identify recurring patterns in **incidents, tech debt, and delivery problems**; surface root causes and own solutions. - Raise the engineering bar through **design/code reviews, standards, and mentoring**. --- ### What We’re Looking For - **8+ years** of professional software engineering experience; shipped full-stack web applications used by customers. - Experience as a **technical lead** on large, cross-functional projects with meaningful business impact. - Strong **front-end** skills (modern web technologies/frameworks) and solid web fundamentals, product quality, and UX. - Solid **backend** experience in a language such as **Python, Rust, Go,** or similar (API/service design for customer-facing products). - Proven ability to drive **architectural decisions** that scale. - Ability to influence strategy/priorities **without authority**. - Habit of finding **root causes**, anticipating problems, and delivering durable solutions. - Consistent record of **mentoring** and raising engineering practices. - Comfort with startup realities: build quickly, iterate often, run experiments. - Strong **written and verbal communication**
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