Senior Staff Backend Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 175000 - 275000
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
About Hedra:
Hedra is a pioneering generative media company backed by top investors at Index A16Z and Abstract Ventures. Were building Hedra Studio a multimodal creation platform capable of control emotion and creative intelligence.
At the core of Hedra Studio is our Character-3 foundation model the first omnimodal model in production. Character-3 jointly reasons across image text and audio for more intelligent video generation its the next evolution of AI-driven content creation.
Note: At Hedra were a team of hard-working passionate individuals seeking to fundamentally change content and build a generational company together. You should have start-up experience and be a self-starter that is driven to build impactful products that change the status quo. The Hedra team is fully in-person in SF/NY with a shared love of solving hard problems using whiteboards.
Summary:
As a Senior Backend Engineer you will design build and deploy the backend services that power our transformative products including Create Stylize and Studio. You will work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based video and audio creation / editing tools. You will also dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols such as MP4 MKV HLS and MP-DASH and work with tools such as FFMPEG.
You will also work on building and deploying backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure write secure stable and scalable Python code interface with our ground-breaking foundation model and integrate with SQS Kafka S3 and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic.
You will work with passionate engineers and top researchers to build a truly disruptive and novel technology. Were looking for full-time hires for our New York or San Francisco offices.
Experience:
Experience developing scalable services using Python
Experience developing RESTFUL APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
Familiarity with authentication / authorization utilizing standards such as oauth2 OIDC and JWT
Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)
Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
Experience writing scalable async code and leveraging asyncio generators coroutines
Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
Familiarity with AWS IAM IRSA ALB/NLB route53 S3 lambda
Familiarity leveraging schema-registry and serialization protocols such as avro parquet and JSON-schema
Experience developing/scaling pipelines event streaming/processing in AWS using tools such as SQS or Kafka.
Startup Experience is a must we work hard and build quickly. Ideal candidates should be passionate with an always-on attitude that drives them to live and breathe the product (not a punch the clock disposition).
Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems.
Experience with k8s docker especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware.
Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools such as Webcodecs webRTC HLS MP-DASH FFMPEG MP4 and MKV a plus.
At least 5 years of professional Python or Golang.
Personality:
Self-motivated and independent able to set accurate timelines for development and deliver on them. Have an opinion and the experience to backup that opinion.
Low ego high patience strong communication skills.
Understand operational costs and overhead short and long term.
Mission-driven we are building something fundamentally disruptive and this reflects deeply in our company DNA.
And most importantly treat Hedra as your own and help shape the vision accordingly
Benefits:
Competitive compensation and equity.
401k.
Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical Vision Dental).
Gym access.
About the Founders:
Michael Lingelbach (CEO) - Before taking a leave of absence to start Hedra Michael was a PhD student at Stanford jointly advised by Jiajun Wu and Fei-Fei Li. Michael has published in top computer science conferences such as ICRA and CoRL with a focus on building large-scale simulation platforms for computer vision and robotics. He has also made notable contributions to several open source projects (iGibson OmniGibson). Hes a passionate cinephile former thespian and huge fan of Denis Villeneuve.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
