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Backend Infrastructure at Sesame is a Software Engineering role focused on the bottom half of the stack. In this role, you will specifically be focused on building high-leverage infrastructure, services, and tooling that is cross-cutting rather than vertical. This role will bring you into contact with scalability and architectural challenges across multiple domains: agentic workflows, speech understanding and synthesis, IoT, large-scale training, and scalable low-latency inference. If you’re motivated by the idea of building a hyper-efficient, scalable, productive, and reliable engineering system through a combination of tooling, services, libraries, and infrastructure, this team is for you.
Job Responsibility:
Architect and build cross-cutting infrastructure to power serving, training, and the application layer at Sesame
Create compounding productivity improvements for engineers at Sesame by automating everything and building amazing tools
Ship software that makes it easy for product and machine learning engineers to build scalable, reliable systems that are secure by default
Your work spans provider, service, security, and developer infrastructure, plus the design and implementation of core services and libraries
Requirements:
Experience solving hard problems with Kubernetes
You enjoy using cloud or open source infrastructure to solve hard problems when the situation calls for it
You are an excellent programmer and software engineer first
you use open source and cloud infrastructure to leverage in system design
Passionate about automation, including automating repetitive tasks, eliminating toil, building self-serve frameworks, and finding ways to do more with less
passionate about making other developers more productive
Excited about using AI to automate and build tools that weren’t even possible one year ago
Obsessed with system uptime, observability, and implementing security best practices at the infrastructure level
Nice to have:
Security engineering experience: You’ve been instrumental in defining security policy or controls, implementing or adopting proactive or defensive tooling, etc
Scalable, real-time communication: building and shipping systems that stream and process audio/video in real time and at scale
Database design, scaling, and database performance expertise
Significant experience working with and building systems on GCP
Deep Python expertise
you know how to build maintainable, high-performance, and scalable tooling and serving systems using Python
What we offer:
401k matching
100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits