Backend Infrastructure Engineer

About Sesame

Sesame believes in a future where computers are lifelike - with the ability to see, hear, and collaborate with us in ways that feel natural and human. With this vision, we're designing a new kind of computer, focused on making voice companions part of our daily lives. Our team brings together founders from Oculus and Ubiquity6, alongside proven leaders from Meta, Google, and Apple, with deep expertise spanning hardware and software. Join us in shaping a future where computers truly come alive.

About the Role

As a Backend Infrastructure Engineer at Sesame, you will work across the stack, with an emphasis on backend, infrastructure, and systems. You should feel comfortable working on any typical software project, with the ability to quickly learn new tools and services with a strong intuition on software development and software deployment best practices.

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.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Significant IaC experience (Terraform preferred).

Some ML experience.

Sesame is committed to a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered. We welcome all qualified applicants, embracing diversity in race, gender, identity, orientation, ability, and more. We provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities—contact careers@sesame.com for assistance.

Full-time Employee Benefits

Benefits do not apply to contingent / contract workers

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