Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

Deepgram
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Organizational skills","Problem-solving"]

Design and implement secure, robust, and scalable backend services for speech processing and Deepgram’s core inference stack. You’ll improve networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency/memory optimization, develop measurement and performance optimization processes, and debug complex distributed system issues. Partnering with Product, you’ll deliver end-to-end features and rapidly customize services to meet customer needs, using reusable code and strong engineering fundamentals.

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Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

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Job Summary

Design and implement secure, robust, and scalable backend services for speech processing and Deepgram’s core inference stack. You’ll improve networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency/memory optimization, develop measurement and performance optimization processes, and debug complex distributed system issues. Partnering with Product, you’ll deliver end-to-end features and rapidly customize services to meet customer needs, using reusable code and strong engineering fundamentals.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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, and/or products end to end.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of experience in an industry role.
  • •Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python.
  • •Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
  • •Strong version control experience, preferably git.
  • •Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems.
Experience:3+ years
Skills:CommunicationOrganizational skillsProblem-solving
Tech Stack:RustCC++PythonGitUNIXTorchCNNsRNNSTransformersMachine learningAudio processingNetworking

Company Brief

Deepgram
Deepgram builds a real-time Voice AI platform delivering speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent APIs for developers and enterprises, focusing on low-latency, high-accuracy voice models and scalable deployment options.
Industry: API Platforms
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2015
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