Data Infrastructure Engineer - Data Acquisition & Pipelines

Speechify; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Bonus and equity

Distributed team culture

Autonomy and impact

Job summary

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure & Acquisition in Arlington, VA. The role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines to support model training and data collection at petabyte scale, integrating cloud infrastructure, and collaborating with data scientists and AI leadership.

You will help grow the ingestion stack on GCP, implement IaC, and optimize throughput and cost while delivering high-quality datasets for next-generation products used by millions of

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

Bash scripting

Python scripting

Cloud platforms (GCP)

Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Communication skills

Multi-tasking

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Speechify is seeking a Software Engineer for Data Infrastructure & Acquisition in Arlington, VA. The role focuses on building and maintaining data pipelines to support model training and data collection at petabyte scale, integrating cloud infrastructure, and collaborating with data scientists and AI leadership.

You will help grow the ingestion stack on GCP, implement IaC, and optimize throughput and cost while delivering high-quality datasets for next-generation products used by millions of