Data Infrastructure Engineer — Ingest & Cloud (Dubai)

Speechify; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fast-growing environment

Entrepreneurial team

Hands-off management

Impactful work

Competitive salaries

Job summary

Speechify is hiring a Data/AI-focused Software Engineer to join our fully distributed team. You’ll own data collection, ingestion pipelines, and collaboration with scientists to build scalable datasets for next-generation models.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, strong Bash/Python on Linux, Docker and Terraform experience, and comfort with GCP. You’ll help expand data sources, optimize throughput, and support impactful products in education technology.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments.
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP).
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline.
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

Skills

Software development

Python scripting

Linux Bash

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud (GCP)

Data collection

Communication skills

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

GCP

Web crawlers

Job description

Speechify is hiring a Data/AI-focused Software Engineer to join our fully distributed team. You’ll own data collection, ingestion pipelines, and collaboration with scientists to build scalable datasets for next-generation models.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in software development, strong Bash/Python on Linux, Docker and Terraform experience, and comfort with GCP. You’ll help expand data sources, optimize throughput, and support impactful products in education technology.