Backend Software Engineer - Engine Team (Voice Agent)

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are 'Powered by Deepgram'. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency.

Company Operating Rhythm

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here.

Opportunity

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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 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 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.

What We Look For

• 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.

Nice to Have

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