Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Responsibilities

We're looking for a hands-on Platform/Observability Engineer to join our infrastructure team. You'll own and evolve our observability stack - from logging pipelines and tracing to metrics and alerting - across a multi-datacenter, Kubernetes-based environment. This is a production-first role: you'll be expected to ship, iterate, and improve systems under real delivery pressure, not just design them on paper.
You'll work closely with other infra and product engineering teams to improve observability coverage, reduce operational toil, and help the broader organization adopt better practices.
Tech Stack Highlights: OpenTelemetry · Kafka · Vector · VictoriaMetrics · EKS · Kubernetes · Logging pipelines · Distributed tracing · SPM· AWS

• Designing, deploying, and maintaining production observability stacks (logs, metrics, traces)

• Scaling observability infrastructure across multiple data centers and Kubernetes clusters

• Owning logging pipeline architecture and refactoring efforts

• Improving distributed tracing coverage and driving adoption across engineering teams

• Managing EKS upgrades, node exporters, agents, and collectors

• Automating operational tasks to reduce toil and improve system stability

• Contributing to compliance and audit readiness (access controls, data handling, pipeline integrity)

• Evaluating and adopting new observability tooling - knowing what's worth pursuing and what isn't

Requirements

Core technical experience:

• 8+ years of industry experience

• Solid hands-on production experience with observability systems

• Strong plus - familiarity with OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Vector, and VictoriaMetrics (vmagent, alerting rules)

• Experience with logging pipelines: design, deployment, and refactoring

• Understanding of distributed tracing and SPM (Service Performance Monitoring) built on top of tracing

• Experience with Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management (EKS preferred)

• Practical knowledge of storage trade-offs for observability data at scale

Nice to have  

• Experience using AI to automate infrastructure or observability tasks (e.g., automated RCA, PR generation, deployment workflows)

• Familiarity with AI-assisted tooling selection and workflow integration

• Experience with MCP (custom or open-source implementations)

• Background in cloud account or environment migrations

• Experience preparing infrastructure for compliance/audit processes

• Understanding network architecture, troubleshooting and incident resolution skills in Production environment, writing Post-mortems.

• Experience with containers and Kubernetes (installation and configuration of operators). 

• Basic knowledge of one or more high-level programming languages, such as Python, Golang, Java

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Good communication and collaboration skills in international technological companies.

• Interest in modern big distributed storage technologies, architectures.

• Good Spoken English to participate in product-related, architectural and technical discussions.

• Proper balance between being hands-on and deeper analytical approaches

(REQ ID: 2640)