Software Engineer, Platform

The role

You will design clean APIs, build scalable services, and maintain systems for petabytes of audio data. You will work across product surfaces to power data collection and customer-facing insights.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain production-grade backend services.
• Own the architecture and performance of distributed systems for audio data.
• Define and evolve internal APIs and service boundaries.
• Build resilient, observable, and easy-to-debug systems.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and ML teams to iterate and ship.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years backend development building scalable APIs and services.
• Proficient with RESTful APIs, service interfaces, and database design (PostgreSQL, MySQL).
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and service-oriented architecture.
• Extensive cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Proficient in profiling, debugging, and optimizing backend systems.

Nice to have

• Experience launching systems from ground up in high-growth environments
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, async processing, or large-scale data pipelines
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps best practices
• Built scalable data pipelines that have facilitated large-scale event-driven workflows across large volumes of audio or video data
• Scaled up inference and train compute for large scale workloads in a production setting

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Top-notch health, dental, and vision coverage with 100% coverage for most plans
• FSA & HSA access
• 401k access
• Meals 2x daily through DoorDash
• Snacks and beverages available at the office
• Unlimited company-sponsored Barry’s classes

Before you apply

• We sponsor international candidates across a range of visa types, including H-1B transfers, H-1B1, O-1, E-3, and TN, and we support STEM OPT

About the company

David AI is the first audio data research company. Founded in 2024 by a team of former Scale AI engineers and operators, it develops datasets for AI labs and enterprises.