About Sandbar

Sandbar is an interface company in New York City. We aim to bridge gaps, to better navigate the world around & inside each of us. Our north star is self extension.

Our team has built consumer products across Meta, CTRL-labs, Google, Apple, Fitbit, Peloton, and Equinox.

Our first product, Stream, is a new way to capture thoughts—a private voice ring and conversational notepad.

Stream has been featured in WSJ, Bloomberg, Fast Company, and Wired, and begins shipping in Summer '26.

About

We’re looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to help build Stream, new conversational interface. You will be responsible for developing a highly scalable real-time production service with various steps of ML and data processing. You’ll work closely with other mobile and firmware engineers to deliver the foundations for new human-computer interactions.

Responsibilities

• Architect a high-uptime, low-maintenance, and reliable distributed inference system

• Lead observability and oncall

• Achieve very low latency & jitter with attention to P99 performance

• Develop a safe rollout to production process in partnership with ML, SW, and mobile engineers

• Implement data pipelines for user-facing features and internal tooling

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and Javascript

• Experience in shipping consumer facing interactive real-time services

• 2+ years owning a live production system in a small team, for large N of users

• 2+ years working in a big infra teams (Google / Meta / etc)

• Technical leadership for building a robust process with the team

• Strong ownership on healthy live service

FTE Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental benefits

• Unlimited PTO and sick time

• Early stage equity

Compensation Range: $160K - $220K