Software Engineer, API Multimodal

📋 Description

• Design, build, and ship developer-facing APIs and backend services that serve frontier models.
• Architect low-latency streaming, request, session, and model integration systems that make complex multimodal interactions reliable and intuitive at scale.
• Work directly with Research to bring new model capabilities into production, shape the systems around them, and incorporate feedback from real-world developers and customers.
• Own the availability, latency, scalability, and cost efficiency of the services you build.
• Own projects from technical design and implementation through launch and ongoing iteration, while raising the team’s engineering standards.

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years in backend, infrastructure, or related roles.
• Designed/operated production backend services and APIs.
• Strong fundamentals; lead technically complex projects to production.
• Proficient in Python, Go, Rust, or TypeScript.
• Experience with distributed systems, latency, observability, tradeoffs.
• Product judgment and API design with developer empathy.