About Dialpad
Dialpad is the leading Ai-powered customer communications platform creating human-first, Ai-enhanced solutions that will drive the next wave of how businesses communicate with and serve their customers. Enterprise customers like Randstad, Remax, Mizuho, Cigna, T-Mobile, Johns Hopkins, Motorola, Warby Parker, Panera Bread, and Netflix, use Dialpad and its Ai capabilities to deliver amazing customer experiences. Supported by notable investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, and ICONIQ Capital, Dialpad is a dynamic force in Ai technology with a rapidly expanding presence. Visit dialpad.com to learn more.
About the team
The Telephony Platform team maintains a complex set of APIs and microservices that provide the backbone for real-time communications in Dialpad's products. The team provides a reliable API for audio/video calling, text messaging, phone number management, spam detection and more. It is key to creating a stable and performant experience for a large volume of concurrent users. The Edge Team within Telephony is responsible for managing and securing the flow of communication between Dialpad on the one hand and our customers/carriers on the other. They ensure that the millions of calls and messages flowing through Dialpad every day are properly load balanced and distributed through Telephony resources. The Edge team puts great emphasis on optimizing for call setup speed, ensuring there are no call disruptions, and utilizing best practices for security.
Your role
As a Sr Software Engineer on the Telephony Edge team, you'll use your experience building high scale production systems to develop and manage systems that handle signaling of our phone calls as calls come in or go out of our infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Use a solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design to write software services that scale
- Use your demonstrated experience in large production backend systems to strategize and drive the roadmap for the feature areas you will own
- Use the knowledge gained in past roles to come up with robust testing and monitoring approaches for your services to ensure high quality, stability and reliability
- Partner with engineers across the globe in the Product, Mobile and Telephony teams on overlapping projects
- Use your communication skills to translate deeply technical concepts involving the state of the edge systems to stakeholders outside of the Telephony team
- Mentor other engineers on team best practices
Technology stack
Python, C/C++, Kubernetes (k8s), AWS/GCP, REST, NoSQL, SIP, WebRTC
Benefits and perks
Benefits, time-off, and wellness
An apple a day keeps the doctor away—and it doesn't hurt that we offer flexible time off and great options for medical, dental, and vision plans for all employees. Along with that, employees also receive a monthly stipend to help cover your cell phone bill, home internet bill, and we reimburse for gym membership costs, a variety of wellness events, and more!
Professional development
Dialpad offers reimbursement for expenses related to professional development, up to an annual limit per calendar year.
Culture
We've been named a Top Workplace seven times, and a big part of this is because of our collaborative culture that elevates our teammates, celebrates wins, and brings together passion and talent.
Compensation
Teamwork makes the dream work, and Dialpad offers competitive salaries because each and every Dialer participates in our success.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Dialpad
At Dialpad, we are passionate about Doing the Right Thing. This means we are committed to building a values-driven culture that celebrates identity, inclusion and belonging. As a global company, it's our responsibility to come together to create a culture where all Dialers can Work Beautifully, Delight Our Users, and Innovate Continuously to bring our world-class product to life.
Every Voice Matters at Dialpad. We build community through our Employee Resource Groups, company-wide celebrations, service days, and a robust internal learning & development program focused on the success of our Dialers.
Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and marginalized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Dialpad we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Dialpad is an equal-opportunity employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment.