Staff Software Engineer, Console (AI)

Location: USA - Remote

Salary: Tier 1: San Francisco, New York, Seattle: $276.8K–$307.5K; Tier 2: everywhere else in the US: $246.7K–$274.1K. Equity and 10% annual bonus potential are offered.

Company

Deepgram builds voice AI infrastructure, including speech-to-text, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech, real-time voice agents, and audio intelligence for cloud, self-hosted, and on-premises deployments.

What you will do

• Set technical strategy and architecture for Console, Playground, account management services, and agentic developer tooling.
• Lead large, high-priority cross-functional projects from ambiguous ideas through launch and drive key technical decisions.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, and Marketing leaders on roadmap, prioritization, and AI-native developer experience.
• Build and ship full-stack features, including user interfaces, APIs, and backend services.
• Develop the self-serve growth engine through activation funnels, in-product upgrades, usage-based billing instrumentation, and PLG experimentation.
• Raise engineering standards through architecture and code reviews, technical standards, mentoring, root-cause analysis, and durable solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipping customer-used full-stack web applications.
• Experience serving as a technical lead on large cross-functional projects with significant business impact.
• Strong frontend skills with modern web technologies and frameworks, web fundamentals, product quality, and user experience.
• Backend experience in Python, Rust, Go, or a similar language, including designing APIs and services for customer-facing products.
• Ability to make architectural decisions that remain effective as products and teams scale.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on strategy and prioritization and influencing without authority.
• Ability to identify root causes, anticipate problems, and create durable solutions.
• Consistent experience mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
• Comfort building quickly, iterating frequently, and running experiments in startup environments; strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI-powered developer tooling such as playgrounds, SDK experiences, interactive documentation, or ML model evaluation UIs.
• Experience with agentic or voice AI integrations, including MCP servers, function-calling pipelines, or voice assistant SDKs.
• Experience driving PLG for developer tools, including activation experiments, usage-based pricing, and upgrade flows.
• React experience or interest in learning React.
• Backend depth in Postgres, schema design, and performance optimization at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerized deployments, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Interest in Rust, LLM APIs, GPUs, and real-time audio systems, with willingness to challenge common assumptions.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from the USA as a full-time employee.
• Operate according to principles of concise communication, reducing recurring problems, resisting unnecessary process, and working at the frontier.
• Use AI to build workflows and agents, remain accountable for outputs, and adapt as models and tools change.
• Equity and 10% annual bonus potential are offered.

Hiring process

• Be prepared to explain an AI workflow you built and where you drew the line between AI assistance and your own judgment.
• Legitimate recruiting communication comes only from an @deepgram.com email address.