Cantina

Staff Software Engineer, Bots

Cantina

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: CaliforniaCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $290,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and data specialists, to deliver high-quality, performant, and maintainable features.
  • Experiment with and integrate new AI image, video, and voice generation technologies used to bring AI characters to life.
  • Build tooling and infrastructure around various AI technologies.
  • Gain exposure to the architecture and operations behind one of the fastest-growing social AI products globally.
  • Contribute your expertise to help evolve team processes and technical infrastructure, ensuring scalability and reliability.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 8-10 years of professional software engineering experience, with expertise in backend and cloud architectures.
  • Proficiency in Go and AWS (ECS, S3, DynamoDB, SQS); experience with event-driven architectures using Kafka and Redis, and familiarity with MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
  • Solid understanding of domain-driven design, protobuf/Connect-RPC service patterns, and async pipeline orchestration.
  • Experience integrating external AI/ML APIs (image generation, video generation, LLM inference, TTS/voice) is a strong plus.
  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and generous company equity
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 99.99% of premiums covered by Cantina
  • 42 days of paid time off, including:
  • 15 PTO days
  • 10 sick days
  • 15 company holidays
  • 2 floating holidays
  • Generous parental leave & fertility support
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan
  • Lifestyle spending account – $500/month to use however you’d like
  • Complimentary lunch and snacks for in-office employees
  • One Medical membership, and more!
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Hard Skills & Tools
GoAWSECSS3DynamoDBSQSKafkaRedisMongoDBPostgreSQL
Soft Skills
strong communication skillscollaborative mindsetteam-oriented
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in EngineeringMaster's degree in Engineering