Decagon
Conversational AI
SeniorSoftwareEngineer,CoreInfrastructure
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“Senior Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure at Decagon. Skills: Production infrastructure, High-scale systems, Low-latency systems, Infrastructure-as-code. Design critical infrastructure services. Implement critical infrastructure services”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver high-scale, low-latency systems; Deliver clear SLOs; Deliver great developer ergonomics; Ensure reliability; Ensure scale; Ensure cost efficiency; Power analytics; Power customer-facing telemetry; Support LLM inference; Improve developer velocity; Improve developer safety; Reduce drift; Eliminate recurring issues
Industry & Context.
Turn ambiguous requirements into simple, reliable designs
On-call
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years building and operating production infrastructure at scale, Depth in at least one area across Core/Data/AI‑ML/Platform/Voice, Proven track record meeting high availability and low latency targets, Excellent observability chops, Clear written communication
Nice to Have
Experience being an early backend/platform/infrastructure engineer at another company, Kubernetes experience (GKE/EKS/AKS), Experience across multiple cloud providers (GCP, AWS, and Azure), Experience with customer‑managed deployments
What You'll Do.
Design critical infrastructure services
Implement critical infrastructure services
Partner with research and product teams
Tune service latencies
Support various deployment architectures
Lead infrastructure-as-code
Participate in on-call
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with research and product teams; Partner with data and ML teams
Communication Scope
Clear written communication
Full Job Description
About Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experiences. Our technology enables industry-defining enterprises like Avis Budget Group, Block’s Cash App and Square, Chime, Oura Health, and Hunter Douglas to deploy AI agents that power personalized, deeply satisfying interactions across voice, chat, email, SMS, and every other channel. We’re building a future where customer experiences are being redefined from support tickets and hold music to faster resolutions, richer conversations, and deeper relationships. We’re proud to be backed by world-class investors who share that vision, including a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Coatue, and Index Ventures, along with many others. We’re an in-office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values — Just Get It Done, Invent What Customers Want, Winner’s Mindset, and The Polymath Principle — shape how we work and grow as a team. ABOUT THE TEAM The Infrastructure team builds and operates the foundations that power Decagon: networking, data, ML serving, developer platform, and real‑time voice. We partner closely with product, data, and ML to deliver high‑scale, low‑latency systems with clear SLOs and great developer ergonomics. We organize around four focus areas: - Core Infra: The foundational cloud stack—networking, compute, storage, security, and infrastructure‑as‑code—to ensure reliability, scale, and cost efficiency. - Data Infra: Streaming/batch data platforms powering analytics/BI and customer‑facing telemetry, including for customer‑managed and on‑prem environments. - ML Infra: GPU and model‑serving platforms for LLM inference with multi‑provider routing and support for on‑prem/air‑gapped deployments. - Platform (DevEx): CI/CD, paved paths, and core services that make shipping fast, safe, and consistent across teams. Our mission is to deliver magical support experiences — AI agents working alongside humans to resolve
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