Senior Backend Software Engineer

Cresta is an enterprise customer-experience AI platform that unifies autonomous AI agents, real-time agent assistance, and conversation intelligence for contact centers.

Palo Alto, United States
About Cresta

Cresta Intelligence, Inc. operates Cresta, a human-centric AI platform for enterprise contact centers. Its products automate selected customer conversations, assist human agents in real time, and analyze conversations to improve customer experience, revenue, and operating efficiency.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will build and improve platform components for new product requirements. You will develop reusable and tested systems, own customer-facing deliverables, analyze technical trade-offs, and optimize design for latency, throughput, reliability, and cost.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • 10+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience designing and maintaining APIs using gRPC, REST, and WebSocket
  • Experience handling high-throughput, low-latency real-time audio or video streaming data
  • Experience with database schema design and query optimization
  • Experience deploying containerized applications with Kubernetes
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure

Responsibilities

  • Build and continuously improve platform systems for product requirements
  • Develop high-quality, reusable, and well-tested system components
  • Analyze technical trade-offs and own customer-facing deliverables
  • Optimize platform design for latency, throughput, reliability, and cost
  • Demonstrate engineering best practices
  • Grow technical ownership of significant product and platform areas

Benefits

  • Equity
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