Hedra · 1 day ago
Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $275K/yr
5+ years expHedra is a pioneering generative media company building Hedra Studio, a multimodal creation platform. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and deploy backend services for transformative products, working with video standards and integrating with various technologies to create innovative solutions.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ContentMedia and EntertainmentVideo
Responsibilities
Design, build, and deploy the backend services that power our transformative products, including Create, Stylize, and Studio
Work with web and video standards to power our suite of web-based video and audio creation / editing tools
Dive deep into video container formats and streaming protocols, such as MP4, MKV, HLS, and MP-DASH, and work with tools such as FFMPEG
Build and deploy backend services and APIs to our Kubernetes infrastructure
Write secure, stable, and scalable Python code
Interface with our ground-breaking foundation model
Integrate with SQS, Kafka, S3, and DynamoDB to implement event streaming/processing logic
Qualification
Required
Experience developing scalable services using Python
Experience developing RESTFUL APIs using frameworks such as FastAPI and Pydantic
Familiarity with authentication / authorization, utilizing standards such as oauth2, OIDC, and JWT
Experience working with relational and noSQL datastores (such as DynamoDB)
Experience writing unit and integration tests and working with CI/CD and dev-containers
Experience writing scalable, async code and leveraging asyncio, generators, coroutines
Experience building and scaling cloud-based infrastructure leveraging Kubernetes and EKS
Familiarity with AWS IAM, IRSA, ALB/NLB, route53, S3, lambda
Familiarity leveraging schema-registry, and serialization protocols such as avro, parquet, and JSON-schema
Experience developing/scaling pipelines, event streaming/processing in AWS, using tools such as SQS or Kafka
Experience architecting and implementing REST APIs for distributed systems
Experience with k8s, docker, especially in the context of deploying machine learning models on nvidia hardware
Familiarity with audio/video web standards and tools, such as Webcodecs, webRTC, HLS, MP-DASH, FFMPEG, MP4, and MKV a plus
At least 5 years of professional Python or Golang
Benefits
Competitive compensation and equity.
401k.
Healthcare (Silver PPO Medical, Vision, Dental).
Company
Hedra
Hedra is a content creation platform that uses AI to enables users to generate videos, images, and audio.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$43MKey Investors
Amazon Web ServicesAndreessen Horowitz
2025-10-08Non Equity Assistance· $1M
2025-05-15Series A· $32M
2024-08-01Seed· $10M
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