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Backend Infrastructure Engineer

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Sesame

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United States , San Francisco

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Salary:

175000.00 - 280000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

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
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Flexible spending account matching (medical FSA)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 20, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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