Principal Software Engineer, Mirage
$200-300k
Offers Equity
Office located in Union Square, NYC
AI-powered creative studio
Job no longer available
AI-powered creative studio
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$200-300k
Offers Equity
Office located in Union Square, NYC
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower our customers, regardless of background or experience, with the ability to bring their vision to life in seconds.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of industry experience designing, building, and operating highly scalable distributed systems
- Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency) and strong proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, C++, Java, Rust, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructures (GCP, AWS, Azure, or similar) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Proven track record of delivering high-quality, scalable solutions to production, with an emphasis on performance and fault tolerance
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, with the ability to mentor others, navigate ambiguity, and tackle open-ended technical challenges
What the job involves
- As a technical lead, you will architect and drive platform-wide initiatives that push the boundaries of distributed systems, and you will solve complex technical challenges at massive scale
- Your work will ensure our software engineering organization can innovate quickly and reliably, ultimately helping creators around the world tell their stories through video
- Solve Complex Technical Challenges: Design, implement, and optimize large-scale distributed systems capable of handling massive throughput and concurrency. Own critical backend services end-to-end, ensuring they meet high standards of performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
- Drive Product Infrastructure Forward: Collaborate with product teams to build systems and services that are operationally sound while also enabling rapid feature development and deployment across iOS, Android, and Web platforms
- Drive Platform Improvements: Continuously refine our existing systems, and identify new technologies or methodologies that can enhance our infrastructure,
- Influence Technical Direction: You’ll bring fresh ideas to the table, mentor other engineers, and balance short-term needs with longer-term architectural vision—ensuring we can scale effectively as our user base grows
Our take
As AI integration grows in creative fields, concerns arise about the future of professions like writing and design. However, Mirage, formerly Cpations, has transformed these anxieties into opportunities by harnessing AI technology to streamline the creative workflow.
By automating tasks in music, graphic design, and video production, Mirage allows users to generate compelling content directly from their mobile devices. With a focus on meeting the rising demand for captivating digital content, its subscription-based model covers key processes like captioning, editing, dubbing, and soundtracking.
Mirage's innovative approach has garnered attention, securing funding from tech giants like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. This investment will grow the company's machine learning team and invest further into technical infrastructure and in-house research efforts. It's the latter that spurned the company's rebrand from Captions in 2025, unifying the offerings of AI video platform Captions and the recently launched Mirage Studio under one name. It is refocusing on AI research into multimodal foundational models, which will help it differentiate itself in a highly competitive AI video solutions market.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jul 2024
$60m
SERIES C
Jun 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $85m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- Anything you need to do your best work
- We’ve done team off-sites to places like Paris, London, Park City, Los Angeles, and Nashville with more planned in the future
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Gaurav Misra
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the Head of Design Engineering at Snap Inc, Senior Software Engineer at Localytics, Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, and Software Engineer at Lattice Engines.
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