Backend Engineer: Speech Processing & Scalable Systems

Apply; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Engine team to design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; efficient, distributed compute orchestration; optimized scheduling, and more.

Your skill at building highly reusable code that overcomes technical challenges is paired with an intuition for delightful user experiences.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an industry role.
• Proficiency in Rust (or C/C++), with competence in Python.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong experience with UNIX-style systems and version control (Git).
• Experience with modern ML frameworks such as Torch is a plus.

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 that include networking, scheduling, and high-performance computing interactions.
• Rapidly customize backend services to support customer needs.
• Partner with Product to design and implement new services end to end.

Skills

Rust

Python

UNIX

Git

Tools

Torch

Job description

Deepgram is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join the Engine team to design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; efficient, distributed compute orchestration; optimized scheduling, and more.

Your skill at building highly reusable code that overcomes technical challenges is paired with an intuition for delightful user experiences.