Backend Software Engineer

Deepgram is a leading platform for the Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and building production-grade voice agents at scale. Over 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings powered by Deepgram, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram's voice-native foundation models are accessed via cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software. Backed by a recent Series C, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words.

Deepgram is looking for a backend software engineer to lead the design and implementation of Deepgram's Voice Agent product. You will design and implement secure, robust, and scalable services for speech processing; build integrations supporting telephony providers, RAG systems, and diverse deployment scenarios; engineer for testability and observability within a complex chain of AI models; and more.

• Improve Deepgram's core inference services including areas in networking, speech processing, model orchestration, and observability
• Develop integrations with cutting edge in-house, third-party, and open-source AI models for perception and managing conversational dynamics
• Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, and highly concurrent workloads
• Rapidly customize backend services to support customer needs
• Partner with Product to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end

• 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
• High level of experience and understanding of version control; preferably git
• Comprehensive experience with UNIX-style systems

• Experience with low-latency, multi-model orchestration for AI-enabled applications
• Experience with audio processing

Estimated base salary $150K – $220K, plus equity and 10% annual bonus.

Apply via the provided link.