Sandbar
Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
$160K–$220K
New York City · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Feb 8, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team for a large number of users; 2+ years working in a large infrastructure team.
About the job
Build and operate scalable, low-latency infrastructure and data services for Stream, Sandbar’s conversational interface.
What you'll do
- Architect a reliable distributed inference system and lead observability and on-call.
- Optimize latency, jitter, and P99 performance; develop safe production rollouts with partner teams.
- Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling.
What they ask for
- Proficiency in Python and Javascript.
- Experience shipping consumer-facing interactive real-time services.
- 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team for a large number of users.
- 2+ years working in a large infrastructure team; technical leadership and ownership of a healthy live service.
Pay
$160K – $220K USD base salary
Tools
Python, Javascript
AI focus
Develop and operate a distributed inference system with multiple steps of ML and data processing.
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