Senior Platform Engineer to build the API and infrastructure layer for voice workloads. Own real-time WebSocket and HTTP APIs, design autoscaling and orchestration for voice workloads, and build the developer experience. Join a small, early-stage team with outsized impact on a new product line.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale, real-time distributed systems and API services.
- Deep expertise in real-time streaming infrastructure, including WebSocket server architecture, Server-Sent Events, bidirectional streaming, connection multiplexing, and stateful protocol design.
- Expert-level programming in TypeScript and Python; experience with Rust is a plus.
- Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including load balancing, autoscaling, rate limiting, and traffic shaping for latency-sensitive workloads.
- Experience with Kubernetes, including custom autoscalers, resource management, and health checking for stateful services.
- Strong product sense and ability to think about what developers building voice apps actually need.
- Comfort working on a small, early-stage team where multiple hats are worn and speed is required.
- Experience with audio or media protocols (WebRTC, g711, PCM encoding) is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with ML model serving infrastructure and how inference engines work is a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Startup equity
- Health insurance
- Other competitive benefits