[Remote] Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sesame is a company focused on creating lifelike computers that can interact with humans naturally. They are seeking a Backend Infrastructure Engineer to work on backend and infrastructure projects, building secure and scalable systems for voice interfaces and developer tooling. Responsibilities • Build a secure, maintainable, self-serve core infrastructure • Build a modern training architecture and a modern serving architecture • Build and scale a low-latency voice interface and audio processing pipeline • Build low maintenance, high leverage developer tooling, server, and data infrastructure Skills • Ability to set, own, and communicate direction • Hands-on reliability engineering experience. You hold convictions about monitoring and observability methodology, deployment systems, loosely coupled components, etc • Experience shipping services at scale • Experienced systems designer in designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs • A track record of delivering efficiency through automation • Experience solving challenging infrastructure problems (using the tools below) • Significant IaC experience (Terraform preferred) • CloudFormation, Pulumi, Kube-based, etc • Architected a multi-stack, self-serve Terraform system, or maintained one • Understand the challenges of building infrastructure at scale • Significant Kubernetes experience • Some ML experience • Torch experience, especially model optimization for serving • General ML training or serving experience • Built ML serving and/or training infrastructure • Experience in Torch Serve, Seldon, KServe, Ray Serve, etc • Experience building large-scale distributed training and serving systems • Data engineering experience • Technical leadership • Database design • Real-time communication experience Benefits • 401k matching • 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental benefits • Unlimited PTO and sick time • Flexible spending account matching (medical FSA) Company Overview • Sesame is a voice tech startup focused on developing AI voice assistants that create natural and emotionally resonant conversations. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship • Sesame has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Apply tot his job