Data Infrastructure & Ingestion Engineer — Distributed

Speechify; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salaries

Remote-first culture

Equity

Job summary

Speechify, a distributed company with no central office, is hiring a Software Engineer for the Data side of its AI team. You’ll own data collection and ingestion to support model training, building high-quality datasets at petabyte scale while controlling cost and throughput.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software development, strong Python/bash, Docker, and IaC with GCP experience. You’ll collaborate across the AI team to roadmap datasets powering Speechify’s products for diverse users.

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.

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

Python scripting

Linux Bash

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Web crawlers

Data ingestion

Multitasking

Communication

Education

BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

GCP

Job description

Speechify, a distributed company with no central office, is hiring a Software Engineer for the Data side of its AI team. You’ll own data collection and ingestion to support model training, building high-quality datasets at petabyte scale while controlling cost and throughput.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in software development, strong Python/bash, Docker, and IaC with GCP experience. You’ll collaborate across the AI team to roadmap datasets powering Speechify’s products for diverse users.