Staff Developer Experience (DX) Engineer

COMPANY OVERVIEW Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram. COMPANY OPERATING RHYTHM At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance. Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do. Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5. ABOUT THE ROLE Deepgram wins when developers can go from API key to production with as little friction as possible. As a Staff Developer Experience Engineer, you’ll own the systems that make that happen—from our SDK architecture and code-generation pipeline to the tooling, documentation, and integrations developers rely on every day. This is a deeply technical engineering role, not a traditional Developer Relations position. You’ll build and evolve the foundation behind our multi-language SDKs, improve the developer journey across every touchpoint, and remove friction before developers ever encounter it. Working closely with Engineering, Product, Partnerships, and Developer Relations, you’ll help define the standards for developer experience across the platform. Success in this role means making Deepgram the easiest voice AI platform to build on: faster time to first API call, better SDKs, fewer support issues, and an experience that developers genuinely enjoy using. WHAT YOU'LL WORK WITH - Real-time, streaming SDKs. Our SDKs wrap low-latency WebSocket APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and Voice Agents. The hard, interesting parts are streaming, partial and interim results, reconnection and backpressure, and concurrency. - Multiple languages and tech stacks. Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Rust, .NET, and Java today, with a persistent eye on what developers are building with. - Open source, in the open. The SDKs are public on GitHub. You own the repos, work in the open, and engage directly with external contributors, issues, and PRs. - Spec-driven, generated SDKs. The libraries are generated from a shared API specification, so much of the craft lives in the generation pipeline and templates rather than hand-writing each library, which is exactly the architecture this role owns. - The wider surface. A CLI, the documentation and reference experience, and starter repos and reference integrations for the partner stacks developers build voice agents on, like Pipecat, LiveKit, AWS, and Twilio. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the direction of developer experience. Set the DX roadmap (what we build, in what order, a…