Staff Developer Experience (DX) Engineer

Deepgram
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 219,300 - 276,800 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringSkills: ["First-principles reasoning","Production ownership","Leading through influence","Cross-functional communication","Developer-outcome thinking"]

Own the technical foundation of developer experience for a multi-language voice AI platform. You’ll lead DX roadmap direction, design the SDK code-generation architecture, and set standards for parity, release discipline, and observability across streaming SDKs. Working with Engineering, Product, Partnerships, and Developer Relations, you’ll remove friction from API key to production with tooling, documentation, and generated developer integrations—built across Python, JS/TS, Go, Rust, .NET, and Java.

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Deepgram
Deepgram
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Staff Developer Experience (DX) Engineer

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Job Summary

Own the technical foundation of developer experience for a multi-language voice AI platform. You’ll lead DX roadmap direction, design the SDK code-generation architecture, and set standards for parity, release discipline, and observability across streaming SDKs. Working with Engineering, Product, Partnerships, and Developer Relations, you’ll remove friction from API key to production with tooling, documentation, and generated developer integrations—built across Python, JS/TS, Go, Rust, .NET, and Java.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the DX direction by setting the DX roadmap and acting as technical lead without direct reports.
  • •Design and own the SDK code-generation architecture to ship supported libraries predictably and enable low-cost language expansion.
  • •Define quality standards for developer experience across SDKs, including cross-language parity, versioning, release discipline, and observability.
  • •Improve the SDK surface via code review, patterns, documentation, and pairing to raise others’ DX capability.
  • •Build and maintain the tooling and resilience mechanisms behind the pipeline, CI infrastructure, starter repos, and developer/AI-agent context.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 219,300 - 276,800 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Own developer-facing tooling across multiple languages, including SDK generators, templates, and release automation.
  • •Use AI as part of your build workflow (agentic pipelines, custom tooling, generators) with strong verification discipline.
  • •Build reusable systems that outlive you (generators, automation, pipelines, or architectures others adopted).
  • •Apply first-principles systems thinking to SDKs, code generation, and partner ecosystems.
  • •Demonstrate production ownership: observability, incident response, backward compatibility, and reducing recurring toil.
Experience:Voice AIDeveloper toolsAPIsOpen source
Skills:First-principles reasoningProduction ownershipLeading through influenceCross-functional communicationDeveloper-outcome thinking
Tech Stack:WebSocketPythonJavaScriptTypeScriptGoRust.NETJavaGitHubCLICILlms.txtPipecatLiveKitAWSTwilio

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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