Remote Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

Join Deepgram as a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of products, improving core inference services, developing processes, and partnering with Product to design new services.

Requirements

• At least several years of experience in an industry role
• Programming experience in Rust (or C, C++), with competence in Python
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• A high level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git
• Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems

Responsibilities

• Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and 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 our customer needs
• Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNS, and transformers
• Experience with audio processing