Senior Core Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Senior Core Engineer at Modulate, you will play a crucial role in ensuring seamless data upload for their product, ToxMod. Key responsibilities include creating and optimizing audio ingestion services from VoIP and video chat platforms, transforming prototypes into production-ready solutions, applying infrastructure best practices for reliability and maintainability, debugging and troubleshooting production systems, providing technical support, conducting peer code reviews, and contributing to long-term initiatives. The role requires expertise in cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), C-like programming languages, and software development practices. The company is expanding its reach beyond gaming, and this role offers the opportunity to work at scale, processing millions of audio hours monthly.
Must have:
- Production cloud infrastructure experience
- Containerized app experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Expertise in C-like language (Python, C++, Java etc.)
- System debugging and troubleshooting skills
- Effective technical communication
11 skills required
Job Details
Come put your software engineering skills to work making online experiences less toxic and more inclusive!
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core team, you'll be instrumental in making sure customers can seamlessly upload their data into our product, ToxMod. You'll help develop a system for taking prototypes into production, allowing new customers in new industries to protect their communities from all types of harm. You’ll have the opportunity to deploy your work at scale, processing millions of hours of audio each month. Additionally, you’ll collaborate closely with other software engineers on the team, QA engineers, and customer success managers.
Modulate’s engineering team is at an exciting inflection point. We have proven that our tech works in the gaming industry, and we are now working to expand to more industries and additional use cases. Your skills and expertise will help shape our product, as well as our team as we grow.
The salary for this position is set at $150,000/yr.
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Role Responsibilities:
- Create and optimize services to ingest audio from VoIP and video chat services
- Transform prototypes into production-ready solutions
- Apply your knowledge of infrastructure best practices to ensure that production systems are reliable and maintainable
- Debug and troubleshoot issues in production systems
- Provide technical support for customers integrating with the systems you build
- Peer review designs and code with the other engineers on the team
- Contribute to longer-term initiatives and shared knowledge across the engineering organization and company
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with production cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred but not required)
- Experience with containerized apps (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Ability to debug systems and triage technical issues
- Expertise in at least one C-like programming language (Python, C, C++, Java, C#, PHP or similar)
- Familiarity with version control, continuous integration, and other software development practices
- Effective technical communication skills
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We are a Boston-based startup using machine learning and AI technologies to create safer & more inclusive voice chat experiences with #ToxMod
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