# Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)

**Company:** [Deepgram](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/deepgram)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Rust, Python, C, C++, Git, Unix, Networking, Speech Processing, Model Orchestration, Audio Processing
**Posted:** 2026-02-18

> Backend engineer leading design and implementation of Voice Agent product, building scalable services for speech processing, AI model integrations, and telephony. Requires 3+ years experience with Rust/Python and systems programming.

## Job Description

## Opportunity
Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram’s Voice Agent product. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; build integrations supporting telephony providers, RAG systems, and diverse deployment scenarios; engineer for testability and observability within a complex chain of AI models; and more.

## What You’ll Do
- 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

## You’ll Love This Role If You
- Thrive in a fast-paced, impact-driven environment where learning new skills on-the-fly is not only encouraged but a regular necessity
- Enjoy balancing decisions about product and feature maturity to decide when to make minimally invasive changes versus when to incorporate detailed design work

## It’s Important To Us That You Have
- 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

## It Would Be Great If You Had
- Experience with low-latency, multi-model orchestration for AI-enabled applications
- Experience with audio processing

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