Fullstack Platform Engineer

Rime Voice AI Engineer Rime is a foundation modeling company that builds voice AI for enterprises running customer experiences at scale. Our models are purpose-built for high-volume conversational deployments, engineered for the accuracy, performance, and deployment flexibility that production environments actually demand.About the Role What you'll work onThe Rime TTS API (Deno/TypeScript, PostgreSQL/Supabase, AWS), including performance-critical paths where latency directly affects product qualityProduct reliability, testing, alerting, and monitoringScaling our infrastructure systems and deploymentBilling and credit systemsDeployment infrastructure: AWS EC2, CodeDeploy, ElastiCache/Redis, and our cron worker systemsIntegrations with our advanced Rust-based model inference engine for real-time speechHelping establish the engineering foundations: standards, tooling, and practices that will let us scale as a companyEngineering team is still small, you'll have a big impact!What we're looking forStrong backend fundamentals: you've built and shipped production APIs that handle real traffic under real constraints5+ years of backend/full-stack engineering experienceComfortable working across the stack: TypeScript/Deno (or Node), Rust, SQL, cloud infrastructure, and deployment toolingYou care about latency and reliability and know how to measure bothFluent with agentic development workflows: you use AI tools as a force multiplier and are thoughtful about where they accelerate good workA communication style that's clear, direct, and mature: you write well, give useful feedback, and know how to align without a lot of overheadCollaboration-minded: you can execute autonomously but genuinely enjoy working with othersComfortable code switchingBay Area based or willing to be: we strive to work together in personBonus pointsExperience with voice, audio streaming, or real-time media systemsFamiliarity with ML inference infrastructure or model-serving platformsPrior startup experience (sub-100 people)Why Join Rime Category-defining voice AI infrastructure, not incremental research deltasDirect collaboration with foundersReal impact on company trajectoryMeaningful equity upside, competitive base salaryHigh ownership, high standards, low bureaucracyAt Rime, we...Are outliersCut through the hype to focus on the craftMove fast with agency and freedomMaintain a growth mindset, finding joy in the struggleDo the right things, knowing that it'll lead to making money If that sounds like you too, you'll be a great fit for Rime!