Backend Engineer - Palo Alto

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

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Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

• Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $300M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.

• Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.

• Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.

• Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.

• Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.

• Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

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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.

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  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.

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  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).

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  Serve as the primary technical point of contact for B2B customers on API capabilities; scope, commit to, and deliver new feature requests on defined timelines.

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  Collaborate directly with the algorithm team on ASR model integration and with product on the developer platform roadmap; use AI tooling to accelerate development, documentation, and observability workflows.

   

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong Go (Golang) proficiency; shipped and operated production services in Go.

• Hands-on production experience building and operating AI/ML-serving backend services — inference API design, model service integration, on-call and incident response — not just internal tooling or prototypes.

• Solid architecture experience with high-concurrency, low-latency platform services: multi-region deployment, streaming/real-time protocols (WebSocket and/or gRPC), async/queue-based job pipelines, and autoscaling.

• Experience designing and shipping public-facing APIs or SDKs — authentication, rate limiting, versioning, and developer-facing documentation.

• Professional English proficiency (written and spoken) for developer documentation and direct B2B customer engagement.