[Hiring] Staff Engineer @Hi Auto

Role Description

We are seeking a Staff Engineer in Europe to join our Infrastructure team.

About the role:

• Our backend is developed all in Python running in the cloud over k8s.
• It's not a typical backend interacting with a UI frontend, handling audio streams in real-time.
• Our systems integrate with a large number of third party services.
• Each team member gets to experience a lot of professional growth and ownership.

In this role, you will:

• Own parts of our core backend infrastructure, which is a complex, real-time distributed system written in Python and Rust.
• Own big initiatives end-to-end and deliver them with minimal guidance.
• Troubleshoot highly complex production issues.
• Constantly improve our development velocity while maintaining a very high reliability standard.

Qualifications

• BSc in Software Development or equivalent industry experience.
• Previously a Staff or Principal Engineer at a startup company.
• 10+ years of experience in Python development.
• Strong Python Asyncio experience.
• Strong software design skills.
• Excellent communicator in writing and orally.
• Significant experience with at least one strongly typed language (Rust, C++, Go, Swift, Java, etc).
• Deep understanding of Networking Protocols, Operating Systems.
• Deep knowledge of Python Profiling.
• Experience in delivering and troubleshooting a production-grade cloud-based distributed system.
• Experience in building and troubleshooting a real-time low-level system (e.g. kernel, drivers, RTOS).
• Kubernetes and Helm experience.
• Experience with different observability stacks.
• Strong LLM prompting skills, but also being able to work without them.
• Experience with gRPC and its troubleshooting.
• Being a contributor or maintainer of an open-source package.

Requirements

• An understanding of one of the following: WebRTC, STUN/TURN, SIP, RTP, HLS, RTMP.
• Having worked with Rust and PyO3.
• Audio programming experience.

Qualities We're Looking For

• Fast - you know you're a 10X engineer, not just yet another senior engineer.
• Resilience – being able to balance planned work with real-time issues in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment.
• Strong communication skills – in both written and verbal communication, with the ability to produce crisp and clear documentation.
• Problem solver.
• Extremely Strong ownership and independence.