Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure

About the job

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain secure, maintainable, self-serve core infrastructure for engineering teams.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of scalable, reproducible ML training infrastructure for rapid experimentation.
• Build and operate a reliable, cost-efficient, low-latency model serving architecture.
• Lead and own the low-latency voice interface and audio processing pipeline.
• Build high-leverage, low-maintenance developer tooling, server infrastructure, and data infrastructure.
• Lead technical direction, communicate tradeoffs, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

Requirements

• Strong systems thinking and ability to lead technical direction and implementation.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in infrastructure, platform, or ML systems.
• Hands-on reliability engineering experience with observability, monitoring, deployment systems, and loosely coupled architectures.
• Proven track record of building and shipping services at scale with operational complexity.
• Significant production experience building, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs.
• A default toward automation and building efficiency gains.
• Strong communication skills to lead direction and articulate tradeoffs.

Benefits

• 401(k) with 3.5% employer match
• 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits for employee and dependents
• Unlimited PTO and sick time
• Flexible spending account with up to $1,650/year employer match
• Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Competitive stock options