Summary
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Join a fast-growing AI technology team building the backend systems and infrastructure used to process massive volumes of speech data. You will design scalable data pipelines, improve platform infrastructure, and work across multiple technical areas as customer demand rapidly expands.
Highlights
Join a small, fast-moving engineering team working on large-scale AI data infrastructure, with broad technical scope across backend systems, data pipelines, and platform infrastructure.
Description
We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience to build the pipelines, systems, and infrastructure that power how leading AI labs process and make sense of audio data.
You'll join a tight-knit engineering team at one of the fastest-growing AI startups — founded in 2024 by former Scale AI engineers and operators, backed by NVIDIA, Meritech, Amplify Partners, First Round Capital and Y Combinator, and already serving most FAANG companies and frontier AI labs as customers.
The team is ~50-66 people in San Francisco, and this role works across multiple products on a platform that processes terabytes of speech data every day.
What You'll Be Doing
Building scalable backend systems and data processing pipelines that connect and power all three productsDesigning infrastructure that helps the platform scale efficiently as customer demand grows rapidlyWorking across the speaker platform, lab and researcher tools, and internal toolingCollaborating closely with researchers to iterate on data collection infrastructureArchitecting and maintaining APIs and services that thousands of users interact with daily
What We're Looking For
2-6 years of backend engineering experience as a hands-on individual contributorProficiency in Python and TypeScript — Python is central to the technical interviewExperience at high-growth, VC-backed startups (not exclusively large or legacy companies)A strong CS degree from a top ~50 US program, or equivalent (e.g.
University of Waterloo)Demonstrated ownership of zero-to-one projects with measurable business impactExperience building scalable systems and data processing pipelines in productionFamiliarity with Node.js, PostgreSQL, or AWS; audio, ML, or data-infrastructure domain experience is a plus
Tech stack
Python, TypeScript, Node.js, tRPC, PostgreSQL, AWS, Trigger.dev, WebRTC, FFmpeg
Compensation And Logistics
$175,000–$225,000 base depending on experience, plus competitive early-stage equity100% health coverage on most plans, unlimited PTO, daily meals, and Barry's classesFive days a week in-office in San Francisco, CAOpen to visa transfers, including OPT and H1BFour-step interview process: recruiter screen, hiring manager screen, technical/design interview, on-site
