Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Sandbar. New York · full-time · $160,000–$220,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Design a distributed inference service built for reliability, high uptime and low upkeep
- Own service monitoring and on-call response, with close attention to latency, jitter and P99 performance
- Build a safer path for releasing changes with ML, software and mobile engineers
- Create data pipelines for customer features and internal tools
What you bring
- You’re proficient in Python and JavaScript
- You’ve shipped interactive, real-time services for consumers
- You’ve spent at least two years owning a live system for many users in a small team
- You bring at least two years on a large infrastructure team and can lead the team’s reliability practices
Who this fits
This senior infrastructure role suits an engineer who has owned production systems and can guide reliable service operations. The job is onsite in New York City.
From the employer
About Sandbar
Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox.
Our first product is Stream, is private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year.
Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.
About
We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, a new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable real-time production service with various steps of ML and data processing. You’ll work closely with other mobile and firmware engineers to deliver the foundations for new human-computer interactions.
Responsibilities
Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system
Lead observability and oncall
Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance
Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers
Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling
Qualifications
Proficient in Python and Javascript
Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services
2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users
2+ years working in a big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc)
Technical leadership for building a robust process with the team
Strong ownership on healthy live service
FTE Benefits
Health, vision, and dental benefits
Company-sponsored 401(k)
Unlimited PTO and sick time
Early stage equity
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