Sesame
Staff Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
$175K–$280K
San Francisco +2 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 5, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York
Bellevue - Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in infrastructure, platform, or ML systems roles.
About the job
Leads backend infrastructure, ML training and serving systems, and low-latency voice and audio processing at Sesame.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain secure, self-serve core infrastructure and developer, server, and data tooling.
- Lead architecture and operation of ML training and model serving infrastructure.
- Own the low-latency voice interface and audio pipeline, and guide technical direction across the domain.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in infrastructure, platform, or ML systems roles.
- Significant production experience building, operating, and scaling Kubernetes clusters.
- Hands-on reliability engineering experience and a track record of shipping services at scale.
- Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs; strong communication and automation skills.
Nice to have
- Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably Terraform; CloudFormation, Pulumi, or Kubernetes-based approaches also welcome.
- Experience in ML infrastructure, data engineering, database design, or real-time communication systems.
Pay
$175K – $280K (base salary; currency not stated)
Tools
Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, PyTorch, TorchServe, Seldon, KServe
AI focus
Build and evolve scalable ML training infrastructure and reliable, cost-efficient, low-latency model serving architecture.
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