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New York, New York, United States
Onsite
Hume AI is seeking a talented senior software engineer with strong experience in backend services and cloud infrastructure platforms who is interested in working with our team to build state-of-the-art audio models and evaluation tools. Join us in the heart of New York City and contribute to our endeavor to ensure that AI is guided by human values, the most pivotal challenge (and opportunity) of the 21st century.
About Us
About the Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work directly with our team of research scientists, machine learning engineers, and designers to improve the services that allow us to deliver expression measurement, expression generation, and empathic foundation models in a number of groundbreaking applications. You will support cutting-edge research by contributing to the design, construction, and maintenance of a modern and efficient cloud AI infrastructure and the applications that run on it. You will be expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound architectural decisions, and take ownership of systems from design through production.
Responsibilities
Write clear and concise code to extend functionality on our platform and backend services.
Own the design and evolution of our cloud infrastructure, from deployment pipelines to production services.
Communicate, collaborate, and grow alongside our engineering team.
Requirements
5+ years of experience in developing backend services.
Expertise working with compute and storage on a cloud platform (e.g. GCP, AWS).
Deep understanding of modern deployment strategies utilizing cloud technologies (e.g. blue/green, canary deployments, etc).
Familiarity with service deployment tooling (especially Kubernetes, Terraform, Argo, Docker).
History building and maintaining highly available SaaS products which ensure scalability, performance, and observability.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Bonus
Experience with machine learning concepts.
Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, BigQuery, etc.).
Application Note
Please apply only to the position that best aligns with your qualifications. If you submit multiple applications or have applied within the past 6 months, only your initial submission will be considered.