Hume AI is hiring a
Staff Distributed Systems Engineer in United States

Summary

The job is for a Distributed Systems Engineer at Hume AI, a company specializing in building empathic AI. The engineer will work closely with the team to improve services related to expression measurement, generation, and empathic foundation models. The company is based in New York City but also supports remote work. They have recently raised Series B funding and are launching a new product.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in developing backend services
• Expertise working with storage and compute on a cloud platform (e.g.Google Cloud, AWS)
• Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies
• Experience using service deployment tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, Argo)
• Experience in Kotlin/Spring, Typescript/Express, Python/FastAPI, or Rust
• Experience with building and maintaining highly available SaaS products. Ensuring scalability, performance, and observability
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

• Write clear and concise code to extend functionality on our web services
• Collaborate and grow alongside our engineering team
• Leverage and read APIs to create new integrations
• Create tests, metrics and infrastructure to help improve service reliability
• Design new systems to bring improvements and new facets to our APIs

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with machine learning concepts
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, etc)

Benefits

Annual Salary: $130,000 — $230,000 USD