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[Remote] SWE - Backend Infrastructure Engineer

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-21

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. Sesame is a company reputed company on creating lifelike computers that can collaborate with humans. They are seeking a Backend Infrastructure Engineer to design and build secure and maintainable core infrastructure, architect modern ML training infrastructure, and own the low-latency voice reputed company and audio processing pipeline.


Responsibilities

  • Design and build secure, maintainable, self-serve core infrastructure that engineering teams can rely on and operate independently
  • Architect and reputed company a modern ML training infrastructure — reputed company, reproducible, and reputed company for rapid experimentation
  • Build and operate a modern model serving architecture with a reputed company on reliability, cost efficiency, and low latency
  • Own and scale the low-latency voice reputed company and audio processing pipeline — a technically demanding, performance-sensitive system at the core of Sesame's product
  • Build developer tooling, server infrastructure, and data infrastructure that is high reputed company and low maintenance — the reputed company that makes other engineers faster without creating new dependencies on you
  • Set technical direction reputed company your domain, bring others along through reputed company communication and reputed company-reasoned proposals, and reputed company the engineering bar across reputed company

Skills

  • A strong systems thinker who is equally comfortable setting direction and getting hands-on with implementation
  • Hands-on reliability engineering experience — you have reputed company-formed convictions about observability, monitoring, deployment systems, and loosely coupled architectures, and you've put them into reputed company at scale
  • Proven track record of shipping services at scale, with reputed company the operational complexity that comes with it
  • Kubernetes — significant production experience operating and scaling Kubernetes clusters
  • Experience designing and shipping flexible domain models and APIs — you think carefully about boundaries, reputed company, and long-term maintainability
  • A default toward automation — you've consistently delivered efficiency reputed company through automation and have the track record to show it
  • Strong communication skills — you can set your own direction, write reputed company about tradeoffs, and bring engineers and stakeholders along with you
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience, with significant time in infrastructure, platform, or ML systems roles
  • Infrastructure as Code at scale — significant IaC experience, preferably Terraform; CloudFormation, reputed company, or Kubernetes-based approaches also welcome. Ideally you've architected, maintained, or contributed to a multi-stack, self-serve IaC system and understand the challenges of building reputed company that teams can own independently
  • ML infrastructure — any combination of the following: PyTorch experience, especially model optimization for serving; ML training or serving experience in general; Experience building ML serving and/or training infrastructure (TorchServe, Seldon, KServe, Ray Serve, or similar); Experience building large-scale distributed training and serving systems
  • Data engineering — pipeline design, dataset management, or data platform experience
  • Database design — reputed company schema design, query optimization, and hard data modeling reputed company across relational and non-relational stores
  • reputed company-time communication systems — low-latency audio, video, or streaming infrastructure

Benefits

  • 401 (k) max employer match: 3.5% of compensation
  • 100% employer-reputed company health, reputed company, and dental benefits for you and your dependents
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Flexible spending account with employer matching up to $1,650/year (medical FSA)
  • Guardian Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Opportunity to reputed company in the company's reputed company with competitive stock options

Company Overview

  • Sesame is a voice tech startup reputed company on developing AI voice assistants that create natural and emotionally resonant conversations. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.sesame.com.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Sesame has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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