Backend Engineer - Consumer & Commerce

Plaud, Palo Alto, CA +2

What you will do

Design, build, and ship the batch transcription and streaming ASR API services on Plaud's developer platform — owning the full stack from inference API design and model service integration through authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer documentation.
Deploy and operate the STT services across all 4 global regions; establish on-call rotation, monitoring, alerting, and SLO governance from launch; lead incident response and post-mortems.
Architect for high-concurrency, low-latency MaaS-style workloads — streaming/real-time protocols (WebSocket/gRPC), async job pipelines for batch transcription, autoscaling, and cost/latency optimization — benchmarking against SOTA inference API providers (e.g., Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Google STT).

Plaud, Palo Alto, CA +2

$140K–$219K

a year

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Design, build, and ship the batch transcription and streaming ASR API services on Plaud's developer platform — owning the full stack from inference API design and model service integration through authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer documentation.
Deploy and operate the STT services across all 4 global regions; establish on-call rotation, monitoring, alerting, and SLO governance from launch; lead incident response and post-mortems.
Architect for high-concurrency, low-latency MaaS-style workloads — streaming/real-time protocols (WebSocket/gRPC), async job pipelines for batch transcription, autoscaling, and cost/latency optimization — benchmarking against SOTA inference API providers (e.g., Deepgram, AssemblyAI, Google STT).