Backend Engineer - Palo Alto

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Plaud
Full time
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USA
10/29/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design, build, and ship batch transcription and streaming ASR API services, including inference API design, model service integration, authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer documentation.
Deploy and operate speech-to-text services across four global regions, establishing on-call rotation, monitoring, alerting, SLO governance, incident response, and post-mortems.
Architect high-concurrency, low-latency workloads using streaming protocols, asynchronous job pipelines, autoscaling, and cost and latency optimization.
Serve as the primary technical point of contact for B2B customers and scope, commit to, and deliver API feature requests.
Collaborate with algorithm and product teams on ASR model integration and the developer platform roadmap.
Use AI tooling to accelerate development, documentation, and observability workflows.

Requirements

At least 3 years of backend engineering experience, including strong Go proficiency and production services shipped and operated in Go.
Hands-on production experience building and operating AI/ML-serving backend services, including inference API design, model service integration, on-call, and incident response.
Architecture experience with high-concurrency, low-latency platform services, multi-region deployment, WebSocket and/or gRPC protocols, asynchronous or queue-based pipelines, and autoscaling.
Experience designing and shipping public-facing APIs or SDKs with authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer documentation.
Professional written and spoken English proficiency for developer documentation and direct B2B customer engagement.

Benefits

Competitive base compensation of $159K-$219K plus performance bonus and equity.
Top-tier employee and dependent healthcare, including dental and vision, with an employer subsidy.
401(k) plan with company matching for full-time employees.
Unlimited paid time off and 13 paid holidays.
Twelve weeks of paid new-parent leave regardless of gender.
Hybrid office schedule requiring at least three days in the office per week.
Choice of a new laptop and workstation setup, plus office equipment, annual offsites, free drinks, and snacks.
Founding-team opportunity with meaningful ownership and impact.

Salary: $159k - $219k/yr

Plaud

Plaud builds AI-powered hardware devices and companion apps that capture, transcribe, and summarize meetings and other conversations for professionals. The company sells its consumer electronics and meeting software directly, with subscription services layered on its devices and cloud platform. F...

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