Sr. Backend Engineer - Engine Team: API

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Responsibilities

• ▹Improve Deepgram's core inference services, including 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 and features end to end

Requirements

• ▹3+ years of experience in an industry role
• ▹Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
• ▹Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills
• ▹High level of experience with version control, preferably git
• ▹Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with modern machine learning frameworks (e.g. Torch) or architectures like CNNs, RNNs, and transformers
• ▹Experience with audio processing

Soft skills

About the company

Deepgram is the leading platform for the Voice AI economy, providing real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs and production-grade voice agents. Over 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations - including Twilio, Cloudflare, and Sierra - build on Deepgram, which is backed by a recent Series C round from leading global investors.