[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Deepgram

Role Description

Deepgram is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be the technical lead of the Console team. As a Staff engineer, you'll set the technical direction for our self-serve platform and lead large, high-priority, cross-functional projects that shape the company's product-led growth.

• Set the technical strategy and architecture for Console, Playground, account management services, and agentic developer tooling.
• Lead large, high-priority, cross-functional projects from ambiguous idea to launch.
• Partner with senior leaders in Engineering, Product, Design, Sales, and Marketing on roadmap and company direction.
• Set priorities with the engineering manager and product leadership, translating them into clear, incrementally releasable work for the team.
• Build and ship full-stack features, including polished user interfaces and the APIs and backend services behind them.
• Drive the technical foundation of the self-serve growth engine: activation funnels, in-product upgrade flows, usage-based billing instrumentation, and PLG experimentation.
• Shape how developers use Deepgram through AI tools, including MCP servers, SDK experiences, AI agent playgrounds, and LLM-powered developer tooling.
• Spot recurring patterns in incidents, tech debt, and delivery problems; surface root causes to leadership and own the solutions.
• Raise the engineering bar across the team through design reviews, code reviews, technical standards, and mentoring senior and mid-level engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping full-stack web applications used by customers.
• Experience as a technical lead on large, cross-functional projects with significant business impact.
• Strong front-end skills with modern web technologies and frameworks.
• Solid backend experience in a language such as Python, Rust, Go, or similar.
• Proven ability to drive architectural decisions that hold up as products and teams scale.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on strategy and prioritization.
• A habit of finding root causes, anticipating problems, and turning them into durable solutions.
• A consistent record of mentoring engineers and raising the bar on engineering practices.
• Comfort with startup realities: building quickly, iterating often, and running experiments.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Requirements

• Experience building AI-powered developer tooling such as playgrounds, SDK experiences, interactive docs, or evaluation UIs for ML models.
• Experience shipping agentic or voice AI integrations, such as MCP servers, function-calling pipelines, or voice assistant SDKs.
• Experience driving PLG at a developer-tools company, including activation experiments, usage-based pricing, and upgrade flows.
• Experience with React, or interest in learning it.
• Depth in backend systems: databases (Postgres), schema design, and performance optimization at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerized deployments, and hybrid cloud.
• Interest in Rust, LLM APIs, GPUs, and real-time audio systems.

Notice

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