Deepgram
Backend Software Engineer- Active Learning Team
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedDec 23, 2025
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalOpen level
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Backend Software Engineer- Active Learning Team
Requirements and responsibilities
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Company Operating Rhythm
- Improve Deepgram’s core data ingestion, cataloging, and transformation services including areas in networking, speech processing, audio transcoding, and latency and memory optimization
- Engineer ML training code to be performant and highly extensible, rapidly enabling large-scale training of new foundational model architectures
- Develop processes for measuring, building, and optimizing services to maximize system performance
- Debug complex system issues that include networking, scheduling, database, and other persistence store interactions
- Partner with DataOps and Research to design and implement new services, features, and/or products end to end
Company Operating Rhythm
- 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
Company Operating Rhythm
- 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.
Company Operating Rhythm
- 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
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