Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

Highlights

• Lead scalable ML training infrastructure built for rapid experimentation.
• Own the low-latency voice interface and audio pipeline at product's core.
• Build reliable, low-latency model serving focused on cost efficiency.

What they offer

• 401(k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
• Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunity to share in the company's success with competitive stock options

Ideal candidate

Systems-minded infrastructure leader with 7+ years building reliable platforms at scale. You love automation, clear ownership, and raising the engineering bar through thoughtful design and communication.

Requirements

• Strong systems thinker comfortable leading technical direction and hands-on implementation
• 7+ years of software engineering experience with significant time in infrastructure, platform, or ML systems roles
• Hands-on reliability engineering experience with observability, monitoring, deployment systems and loosely coupled architectures at scale
• Proven track record of building and shipping services at scale with operational complexity
• Significant production experience building, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters
• Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs with focus on boundaries, contracts and maintainability
• Default toward automation with track record of building efficiency gains through automation
• Strong communication skills to lead direction, write clearly about tradeoffs and bring engineers and stakeholders along