Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Sandbar; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental benefits

Unlimited PTO and sick time

Early stage equity

Job summary

A tech company in New York City is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build a new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable, real-time production service, working closely with mobile and firmware engineers. The ideal candidate should have proficiency in Python and Javascript, experience in shipping consumer-facing services, and strong technical leadership skills. The position offers a compensation range of $160K - $220K, alongside comprehensive health benefits and early-stage equity.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and Javascript.
• Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services.
• 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users.
• 2+ years working in big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc).
• Strong ownership on healthy live service.

Responsibilities

• Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system.
• Lead observability and oncall.
• Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance.
• Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers.
• Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling.

Skills

Python

Javascript

Technical leadership

Real-time services

Job description

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals in an agentic world—to think, act, and move freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a new human-agent interface—a private voice ring and conversational computer. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26.

Join us in creating a new interface for self augmentation.

About

We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, a new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable real-time production service with various steps of ML and data processing. You’ll work closely with other mobile and firmware engineers to deliver the foundations for new human-computer interactions.

Responsibilities

• Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system
• Lead observability and oncall
• Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance
• Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers
• Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling
  
  

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and Javascript
• Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services
• 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users
• 2+ years working in a big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc)
• Technical leadership for building a robust process with the team
• Strong ownership on healthy live service
  
  

FTE Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental benefits
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Early stage equity
  
  

Compensation Range: $160K - $220K