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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