{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"21e18c0dfda1356e506536f6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/21e18c0dfda1356e506536f6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/21e18c0dfda1356e506536f6","title":"API Engineering Lead","description":"About Aldea\n\nAldea is a multi-modal foundational AI company reimagining the scaling laws of intelligence. We believe today's architectures create unnecessary bottlenecks for the evolution of software. Our mission is to build the next generation of foundational models that power a more expressive, contextual, and intelligent human–machine interface.\n\nAbout the Role\nAldea is looking for a highly technical API Engineering Lead to own and drive our API roadmap. You’ll lead architecture, implementation, and performance improvements across our real-time and batch speech APIs. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, real-time streaming, and ML productionization.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn end-to-end design, architecture, and evolution of Aldea’s customer facing and backend APIs\nArchitect for Scale & Speed: Design and evolve the global control plane for Aldea’s real-time (WebSocket/gRPC) and batch APIs.\nProductionize ML at the Edge: Build the high-throughput inference layer that wraps our speech models. Optimize for millisecond-level cold starts and efficient GPU utilization.\nReliability & Observability: implement distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry) and define strict SLOs for streaming stability (e.g., jitter, connection drop rates).\nSecurity by Design: Lead the implementation of enterprise-grade security (API keys, OAuth2, rate limiting) and compliance controls (SOC2, data retention) for sensitive audio data.\nDefine API standards, versioning, authentication, usage metering\nPartner with Research, Product, and Infra to deliver new capabilities\nMentor engineers and set best practices for API engineering\nWhat You Bring\n5–8 years backend/systems engineering experience\nStrong experience building and running production APIs\nDeep Proficiency in Go or Rust. (Python is great for modeling, but our hot path needs systems-level performance).\nExperience with streaming systems (websockets, gRPC, real-time audio/video)\nML Infrastructure Experience: Familiarity with model serving (Triton, TorchServe, Ray) or orchestrating GPU workloads on Kubernetes/AWS.\nDeep understanding of distributed systems, performance tuning, async I/O\nCloud Native Fluency: Hands-on experience with AWS (EKS/ECS, Lambda, ElastiCache).\nBonus\nBackground in speech, audio, DSP, or ML inference pipelines\nExperience building SDKs, developer tooling, or API billing/usage systems\nEarly-stage startup experience\nSuccess Looks Like\nAPIs that are fast, reliable, and developer-friendly\nSeamless integration of new models and features\nStrong engineering foundation that supports rapid iteration","company":"Aldea","rawCompany":"aldea","city":"Remote","state":"OR","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-04-14T10:34:03.919Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"API Engineering Lead","description":"About Aldea\n\nAldea is a multi-modal foundational AI company reimagining the scaling laws of intelligence. We believe today's architectures create unnecessary bottlenecks for the evolution of software. Our mission is to build the next generation of foundational models that power a more expressive, contextual, and intelligent human–machine interface.\n\nAbout the Role\nAldea is looking for a highly technical API Engineering Lead to own and drive our API roadmap. You’ll lead architecture, implementation, and performance improvements across our real-time and batch speech APIs. This role sits at the intersection of backend engineering, real-time streaming, and ML productionization.\nWhat You’ll Do\nOwn end-to-end design, architecture, and evolution of Aldea’s customer facing and backend APIs\nArchitect for Scale & Speed: Design and evolve the global control plane for Aldea’s real-time (WebSocket/gRPC) and batch APIs.\nProductionize ML at the Edge: Build the high-throughput inference layer that wraps our speech models. 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