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# Backend Engineer - Engine Team

- **Company:** DEEPGRAM, INC.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Audio Signal Processing, Unix, C++ (Programming Language), Program Optimization, Computer Programming, Software Debugging, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Transcoding, High Performance Computing, Backend, Git, Low Latency, Software Version Control
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-backend-engineer-engine-team-api-deepgram-8731098

## About the Role

* 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

## Description

Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram's products. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; efficient, distributed compute orchestration; optimized scheduling, and more. Your skill at building highly reusable code that overcomes technical challenges is paired with an intuition for delightful user experiences. You will be a critical voice in Deepgram's Product and Engineering teams, driving high impact products from start to finish.

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


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