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Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

New York, United States

Location
New York, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior
Function
Engineering
Pay
$160K – $220K a year
Posted
9 months ago

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The top of this role’s range, $220K a year, is 4% below the median of $230K for senior engineering jobs in New York (middle half $200K – $250K, 1,001 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to expand human thinking. Our team has built software, ML, hardware, and consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Apple, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product is Stream, a private voice ring that extends your thinking. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Wired, and Time's Best Inventions of the Year.

Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.

About

We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, a 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • Proficient in Python and Javascript
  • 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

FTE Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental benefits
  • Company-sponsored 401(k)
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Early stage equity

Source

Posted by Sandbar on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 07 Nov 2026 11:49 UTC; the original is the reference.

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