[Remote] Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deepgram is the leading platform in the Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech processing. They are seeking a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of their Voice Agent product, focusing on building secure and scalable services while collaborating with product teams.
Responsibilities
- Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, model orchestration, and observability
- Develop integrations with cutting edge in-house, third-party, and open-source AI models for perception and managing conversational dynamics
- Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and highly concurrent workloads
- 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
Skills
- 3+ 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
- Experience with low-latency, multi-model orchestration for AI-enabled applications
- Experience with audio processing
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision benefits
- Annual wellness stipend
- Mental health support
- Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
- Unlimited PTO
- Generous paid parental leave
- Flexible schedule
- 12 Paid US company holidays
- Quarterly personal productivity stipend
- One-time stipend for home office upgrades
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Tax Savings Programs
- Learning / Education stipend
- Participation in talks and conferences
- Employee Resource Groups
- AI enablement workshops / sessions
- For candidates outside of the US, we use an Employer of Record model in many countries, which means benefits are administered locally and governed by country-specific regulations. Because of this, benefits will differ by region — in some cases international employees receive benefits US employees do not, and vice versa. As we scale, we will continue to evaluate where we can create more alignment, but a 1:1 global benefits structure is not always legally or operationally possible.
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