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Sandbar

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

New York City

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Role family
Engineering
Seniority
Senior
Country
US
Work mode
Remote-friendly
First seen by hirly
2 Sept 2026

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About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to augment individuals so we can each think, act, and move more freely. Our team has built SW, ML, and HW products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a self extension—a private voice ring and conversational interface. Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, & Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26.

Join us in creating technology that extends human thinking.

About

We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, a new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable real-time production service with various steps of ML and data processing. You’ll work closely with other mobile and firmware engineers to deliver the foundations for new human-computer interactions.

Responsibilities

Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system

Lead observability and oncall

Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance

Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers

Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling

Qualifications

Proficient in Python and Javascript

Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services

2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users

2+ years working in a big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc)

Technical leadership for building a robust process with the team

Strong ownership on healthy live service

FTE Benefits

Health, vision, and dental benefits

Company-sponsored 401(k)

Unlimited PTO and sick time

Early stage equity

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