Principal/Staff engineer building secure, scalable enterprise platform systems and APIs for AI video generation at Synthesia
Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US.
As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.
Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.
About the role
You will work on core enterprise platform systems, focusing on services that ensure Synthesia is secure, reliable, and scalable for our largest customers.
You will contribute to our new suite of APIs that will unlock our market leading Avatar technology to be utilised by external creative tools.
We are an AI native company and use the most powerful assistant tools on a daily basis to increase our speed of development, automate repetitive tasks and widen the scope of what the team can worked on. This includes Claude and Cursor.
You will have ownership of projects that span months and multiple teams, requiring you to break down complex, ambiguous problems into clear steps that can be delivered and validated iteratively.
Engineers within Synthesia are empowered to contribute heavily to product discussions and build with both user and business considerations in mind. Impact is key to everything we do here.
You will work closely with product, security, legal, and infrastructure partners, and will be expected to translate business and regulatory requirements into scalable technical solutions.
You will evaluate your work through system health and reliability metrics, leveraging observability and monitoring to ensure systems meet performance, reliability, and compliance expectations.
You will consider the long-term direction of the platform, ensuring that the systems we build today can support future scale, enterprise requirements, and evolving regulatory needs.
Why join us?
We’re living the golden age of AI. The next decade will yield the next iconic companies, and we dare to say we have what it takes to become one. Here’s why:
Our culture
At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here. https://www.notion.so/How-we-work-at-Synthesia-f794caa72f8446efb6be22b551ce0fa2?pvs=21
Serving 50,000+ customers (and 50% of the Fortune 500)
We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers https://www.synthesia.io/case-studies and what 1,200+ people say on G2 https://www.g2.com/products/synthesia/reviews#reviews.
Proprietary AI technology
Since 2017, we’ve been pioneering advancements in Generative AI. Our AI technology is built in-house, by a team of world-class AI researchers and engineers. Learn more about our AI Research Lab and the team behind. https://www.synthesia.io/research
AI Safety, Ethics and Security
AI safety, ethics, and security are fundamental to our mission. While the full scope of Artificial Intelligence's impact on our society is still unfolding, our position is clear: People first. Always. Learn more about our commitments to AI Ethics, Safety & Security https://www.synthesia.io/ethics.
1. Tech Recruiter Interview (30-40min) - Technical background, previous experience, and what you're looking for
2. Delivery and Impact Interview (60min) - Deep dive into your past projects, impact, and ways of working
4. Final debrief on our side which leads to an offer or the end of the process.
You can find more details on what to expect and how to prepare HERE https://app.notion.com/p/synthesia/How-should-I-prepare-for-my-Synthesia-Engineering-interviews-3a6c16d22bf1801e99f7c33163221e75?source=copy_link. The process does not need to take long - we can be done in two we
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