Backend / Infra Engineer

Hamming AI
San Francisco, London, Austin
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 140,000 - 200,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Problem-solving","Communication","Teamwork"]

Lead reliability and scale for a real-time, distributed backend powering LLM-enabled voice agents. Own core services in TypeScript/Node.js and Python, scale to thousands of parallel calls with high uptime, Harden data pipelines, improve observability, and collaborate to ship new LLM-driven features while ensuring CI/CD readiness for production.

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Hamming AI
Hamming AI
1 year ago

Backend / Infra Engineer

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Job Summary

Lead reliability and scale for a real-time, distributed backend powering LLM-enabled voice agents. Own core services in TypeScript/Node.js and Python, scale to thousands of parallel calls with high uptime, Harden data pipelines, improve observability, and collaborate to ship new LLM-driven features while ensuring CI/CD readiness for production.
Location: San Francisco, London, Austin
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own core services in TypeScript/Node.js and Python that orchestrate LiveKit, Temporal, STT/TTS, and LLM tooling for real-time voice agents.
  • •Scale 1 → N → 100×: harden for 10K parallel calls with 99.99% uptime and convert human playbooks into productized systems.
  • •Harden pipelines for ingestion, evaluation, and analytics so telephony events, recordings, and outcomes propagate reliably across services.
  • •Level-up observability: deepen OpenTelemetry/SigNoz and trace-first practices to shrink mean-time-to-truth in prod.
  • •Prototype → test → prod: ship new LLM-driven behaviors with clear success metrics, guardrails, and CI-blocked regressions.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 140,000 - 200,000 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Senior/staff experience running distributed backends with real-time/streaming constraints; ability to own reliability at scale.
  • •Fluent in TypeScript/Node.js and comfortable jumping into Python for ML/audio workloads.
  • •Knowledge of Temporal (or similar workflow engines), Redis, queues, and PostgreSQL.
  • •Have shipped production LLM applications and understand prompt/tool design, evals, and guardrail instrumentation.
  • •Experience with AWS and Terraform; comfortable with Kubernetes.
Experience:3+ yearsDistributed systemsReal-time
Skills:OwnershipProblem-solvingCommunicationTeamwork
Tech Stack:Node.jsTypeScriptPythonLiveKitTemporalSTTTTSLLM toolingAWSTerraformPostgreSQLRedisOpenTelemetrySigNozNext.jsTailwind

Eligibility

Visa:US citizen/visa only
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Hamming AI
Builds AI-powered tools and services to help organizations deploy, monitor, and integrate machine learning models into applications, focusing on improving model performance, reliability, and developer productivity.
Industry: Developer Tools
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