Software Engineer, Otter.ai

Data Infrastructure

$136-185k

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kafka

Airflow

Spark

Snowflake

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

Voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations

Be an early applicant

Voice-first team collaboration app for meetings and conversations

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivityCommunicationMobileVideo

Be an early applicant

$136-185k

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Java

Kafka

Airflow

Spark

Snowflake

Junior and Mid level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Mountain View, CA

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceProductivityCommunicationMobileVideo

Company mission

To make all voice conversations accessible and searchable through Ambient Voice Intelligence™.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

If you're excited about building the backbone of a data-driven organization and thrive in a space where engineering excellence meets real-world impact, we’d love to talk
Has a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Has 2+ years engineering experience (2+ years in data infrastructure)
Has strong programming skills, preferably in Python or Java
Has expertise with cloud data lakes such as Snowflake or Databricks
Has experience with streaming and big data processing frameworks (e.g., Kafka, Spark)
Is experienced with workflow orchestration systems (e.g. Apache Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
Has implemented CDC solutions (e.g. Debezium, Maxwell)
Has experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS) and containerization tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)

What the job involves

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer with a passion for building robust and scalable data infrastructure to join our Data Platform team
In this role, you’ll design and develop the foundational systems that power the flow of data across the company, enabling fast insights and smarter decisions as we grow
Our mission is to create a platform that turns raw information into actionable intelligence—efficiently, reliably, and at scale
Design and build resilient systems for real-time data movement, processing, and storage
Scale data infrastructure to support our rapidly growing business needs
Unlock actionable insights by enabling seamless access to high-quality, trustworthy data
Drive innovation in data ingestion, transformation, and delivery across the company
Establish best practices that balance performance, flexibility, and governance at scale

Our take

Otter specifically thought of business professionals who are running from one meeting to the next, while juggling multiple projects with various teams. The company's technology integrates with platforms like Zoom, providing a way to record meetings and convert speech to text in real-time. It then streamlines communications for smarter, more collaborative, and more productive meetings—the first use of conversational AI to turn meetings into an actionable workflow.

This allows people to benefit from captioning, as well as teams to have a written record of the conversation, which can be edited and shared. Its AI can also highlight and comment on important sections of a meeting transcript, and automatically tag action items. In addition to businesses, students and universities – including UCLA, Tulane, and Western Kentucky – use the tool to increase accessibility.

The platform is used in more than 230 countries and has transcribed over 100 million meetings. Otter is far from alone in the audio transcription market, estimated to be worth nearly $41.89 billion by 2030, with Google’s free transcription tool posing a potential threat, as well as competitors such as Rev.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

27% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Feb 2021

$10m

CONVERTIBLE

Feb 2021

$40m

SERIES B

Total funding: $73m

Company benefits

Stock and equity package
Parental leave benefits
Retirement savings program 401(k)
Boundless snacks and free catered lunches
Team lunches and social events
Work from home opportunities
Comprehensive package that includes health care (medical, dental, vision, life, disability) and mental health support
$500 home office stipend

Company HQ

Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA

Leadership

Sam Liang

(CEO)

Earned a PhD from Stanford and then joined Cisco as a Senior Software Engineer. Worked as a Tech Lead at Google and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

Yun Fu

(CTO)

Has a PhD in Computer Science from Duke. Worked as Yahoo's Principal Software Engineer and was Head of Infrastructure at Particle Media.

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