Synthesia

Synthesia

Principal/Staff Software Engineer

Seattle · Principal · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
PythonReactDatadogLLMsIncident ResponseValuationResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers.
  • You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools.
  • We are an AI native company and use the most powerful assistant tools on a daily basis to increase our speed of development, automate repetitive tasks and widen the scope of what the team can worked on.

Responsibilities

  • Engineers within Synthesia are empowered to contribute heavily to product discussions and build with both user and business considerations in mind.
  • You will consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.
  • We only sponsor VISA if you are in the US already and need support.

Requirements

  • At least seven (7) years of experience as a software engineer, with experience operating at a senior or staff level.
  • Experience owning systems in production, including observability, incident response, and reliability improvements.
  • Ability to work across teams and functions, aligning with stakeholders and driving technical initiatives end-to-end.
  • You can find out more about these principles here. https://www.notion.so/How-we-work-at-Synthesia-f794caa72f8446efb6be22b551ce0fa2?pvs=21

Nice to have

  • Experience across the stack is a plus, our tech stack is Python, React & AWS.
  • Previous experience leading projects or mentoring other engineers is a plus.

Skills

  • Synthesia is the world's leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100.

Compensation

  • The salary starts at USD 200,000 base + stock option plan

Benefits

  • You will evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.
  • Everyone at Synthesia gets 25 days of leave + local holidays (no extra paid or unpaid leave possible).

Company info

  • At Synthesia we're passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising.
  • We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions.
  • Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible.
  • Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500)
  • We're trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald's and more.
  • Read stories from happy customers https://www.synthesia.io/case-studies and what 1,200+ people say on G2 https://www.g2.com/products/synthesia/reviews#reviews.
  • Proprietary AI technology
  • Since 2017, we've been pioneering advancements in Generative AI.
  • Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers.
  • Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind. https://www.synthesia.io/research
  • AI Safety, Ethics and Security
  • AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission.
  • While the full scope of Artificial

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We only sponsor VISA if you are in the US already and need support.

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