Sr. Backend Engineer
Backend engineer on the Engine Team building and optimizing Deepgram's core inference services for speech processing, audio transcoding, networking, scheduling, and high-performance computing. Requires 3+ years experience with Rust (or C/C++) and Python.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Improve Deepgram’s core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization.
- Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance.
- Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and high performance computing interactions.
- 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 modern machine learning, such as experience with a framework like Torch or implementation knowledge of architectures like CNNs, RNNS, and transformers.
- Experience with audio processing.
Skills
Rust, Python, C++, C, Git, Unix, PyTorch, Cnn, Rnn, Transformers, Audio Processing
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