Senior Backend Engineer

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Salary Range: $160,000-$225,000 base plus 0.3% - 0.7% equity.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio. You will work with web and video standards to power our clients' web-based video and audio creation / editing tools. You will also dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG.

You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to the Kubernetes infrastructure, write secure, stable, and scalable Python code, interface with our clients' ground-breaking foundation model, and integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. Our client is looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices.

Role responsibilities:
• Work with web and video standards to power a suite of web-based video and audio creation / editing tools
• Dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG.
• Build and deploy backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Write secure, stable, and scalable Python code.
• Interface with our ground-breaking foundation model.
• Integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.

Minimum requirements a candidate must meet:

• 5+ years of experience in Python or Golang.

• Experience developing scalable services using Python

• Experience developing RESTFUL APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic

• Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT

• Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)

• Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers

• Experience writing scalable, async code and leveraging asyncio, generators, coroutines

• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS

• Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS

• Familiarity leveraging schema-registry, and serialization protocols such as avro, parquet, and JSON-schema

• Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka.

• Startup Experience is a must - we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a "punch the clock" disposition).

• Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems.

• Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.

Nice-to-haves:

• Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV.