Senior Core Engineer

Come put your software engineering skills to work making online experiences less toxic and more inclusive! 

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core team, you'll be instrumental in making sure customers can seamlessly upload their data into our product, ToxMod. You'll help develop a system for taking prototypes into production, allowing new customers in new industries to protect their communities from all types of harm. You’ll have the opportunity to deploy your work at scale, processing millions of hours of audio each month. Additionally, you’ll collaborate closely with other software engineers on the team, QA engineers, and customer success managers.

Modulate’s engineering team is at an exciting inflection point. We have proven that our tech works in the gaming industry, and we are now working to expand to more industries and additional use cases. Your skills and expertise will help shape our product, as well as our team as we grow.

The salary for this position is set at $150,000/yr.

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Role Responsibilities:

• Create and optimize services to ingest audio from VoIP and video chat services
• Transform prototypes into production-ready solutions
• Apply your knowledge of infrastructure best practices to ensure that production systems are reliable and maintainable
• Debug and troubleshoot issues in production systems
• Provide technical support for customers integrating with the systems you build
• Peer review designs and code with the other engineers on the team
• Contribute to longer-term initiatives and shared knowledge across the engineering organization and company

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with production cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred but not required)
• Experience with containerized apps (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Ability to debug systems and triage technical issues
• Expertise in at least one C-like programming language (Python, C, C++, Java, C#, PHP or similar)
• Familiarity with version control, continuous integration, and other software development practices
• Effective technical communication skills

Nice To Have:

• Familiarity with audio processing technologies (codecs, WebRTC, Twilio, etc.)
• Experience with game development in Unity or Unreal game engines
• Interest in working directly with customers to support integrations
• Experience specifically with modern C++ library development

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