Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to bridge gaps, to better navigate the world around & inside each of us. We believe that technology should act as a self extension that expands human expression. Our team has built consumer software and hardware products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a private voice ring and conversational notepad—covered by WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Fast Company. Join us in creating the future of human-computer interaction.

We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable real-time production service with various steps of ML and data processing. You’ll work closely with other mobile and firmware engineers to deliver the foundations for new human-computer interactions.

• Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system

• Lead observability and oncall

• Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance

• Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers

• Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling

• Proficient in Python and Java script

• Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services

• 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users

• 2+ years working in a big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc)

• Technical leadership for building a robust process with the team

• Strong ownership on healthy live service

• Health, vision, and dental benefits

• Unlimited PTO and sick time

• Early stage equity