As a Senior Software Engineer on the Backend Engineering team, you will help build the backend microservices that power Hume’s APIs and control planes. You will work closely with data plane engineers, UI engineers, research scientists, machine learning engineers, product managers, and infrastructure engineers to bring new product features and inference capabilities into production.
This is a systems-oriented backend role focused on reliability, performance, scalability, and efficient resource utilization. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, make sound architectural decisions, and own systems throughout their lifecycle—from initial design and implementation through deployment, observability, and production support.
Design, build, and maintain the backend microservices that deliver Hume’s voice AI capabilities to users.
Design and develop public-facing and internal APIs that are secure, reliable, performant, and highly available.
Diagnose complex production issues across application, operating system, container, and networking layers.
Build capabilities such as real-time audio streaming and integrations with model inference systems.
Profile and optimize latency, throughput, memory usage, and resource utilization.
Improve the observability, resilience, testability, and operational safety of the platform.
Make architectural and implementation tradeoffs across reliability, performance, complexity, and development velocity.
Collaborate with research and product teams to turn emerging model capabilities into reliable production systems.
Write clear technical documentation for the systems and features you build.
What You’ll Bring
Qualification
Experience with Kubernetes
Preferred
Demonstrated experience designing or building high-concurrency, high-throughput, or latency-sensitive systems.
Experience with Kubernetes.
Experience with observability and distributed tracing tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.
Experience with L4/L7 proxies such as NGINX, HAProxy, or Envoy.
Experience designing REST or gRPC APIs and OpenAPI specs.
Experience building container images and maintaining production CI/CD pipelines.
