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Sarvam AI is hiring a Backend Engineer - Studio Media Platform

Responsibilities

  • Develop and refine FastAPI-based services to support dubbing and live translation workflows, managing multi-step task coordination, rate-limited execution, and backpressure handling under heavy load
  • Construct and sustain distributed worker systems that scale independently per processing stage and automatically resume failed or stalled tasks
  • Take full ownership of the database layer, including asynchronous ORM design, schema evolution, and performance tuning for PostgreSQL
  • Deliver real-time capabilities using WebSockets for job monitoring and streaming audio pipelines during live translation
  • Oversee Kubernetes deployments using Helm, manage secrets, configure ingress, and maintain multi-role container images
  • Enhance and support the core library for dubbing across all stages: extracting audio, voice activity detection, speech-to-text, translation, quality checks, text-to-speech, and video assembly
  • Integrate and optimize machine learning model serving via remote inference APIs and local execution for audio analysis and vocal separation
  • Develop and refine quality control workflows including automated scoring, tempo evaluation, normalization guidance, and pronunciation validation
  • Architect asynchronous-first processing pipelines with efficient concurrency models tailored for CPU-intensive audio workloads
  • Advance LLM integration layers used in translation, quality assurance, and preprocessing across various backend providers
  • Create and maintain a shared SDK for Studio services, including reusable FastAPI components for auth, billing, workspace segregation, and input validation
  • Design abstractions for media storage covering uploads, secure URL generation, retention rules, and cloud blob storage connectivity
  • Implement system-wide features such as rate limiting, usage metering, audit logging, and request history tracking across services
  • Establish observability foundations using OpenTelemetry, structured logs, and shared metrics collection across microservices
  • Ensure high test coverage with rigorous CI pipelines, parallel test runs, and comprehensive mocking of third-party dependencies
  • Instrument services with custom metrics and structured error reporting to enable effective production monitoring
  • Manage CI/CD workflows including automated testing, code linting, containerization, artifact publishing, and version control

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Remote (Country) — India

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About company
Sarvam AI

We're building toward a future where AI is widely accessible to everyone in India. With a world-class team of researchers and experts, we're dedicated to developing AI that gets India. What excites us is the chance to build and shape this technology to reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems.

We want India to embrace the most important technological shift of our time with confidence and control. Our ambition is to build foundational components and apply them to the country's unique needs. To this end, we've built a full-stack AI platform, with everything developed, deployed, and governed entirely in India.

We believe the real value of our research work will come from everyday use. That means translating our research into compelling products and applications that can be put to work by enterprises, governments and developers.

Sovereign AI is a nationwide, collective effort. With AI opening the door to a new builder era, we want to help catalyze momentum in India. It starts by powering the ecosystem with cost-efficient, high-quality models and tools, so developers, researchers, builders, and startups can create with full agency. The goal is to enable creation at scale by putting state-of-the-art AI in the hands of the community.

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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category backend
Posted 3 months ago