
Senior Software Engineer, Backend - Platform Team
CrestaCresta unlocks the true potential of the customer experience, turning every conversation into a competitive advantage. Cresta’s unified AI platform combines conversational AI agents, real-time human agent augmentation, and comprehensive conversation intelligence to drive revenue and efficiency gains across every channel. The world’s leading companies, including United Airlines, Cox Communications, and Marriott, use Cresta to power world-class customer experiences every day.
Born from the Stanford AI Lab, Cresta has raised more than $270 million from the world’s leading investors, including a16z, Greylock, and Sequoia. Cresta’s leadership includes some of the leading minds in AI today. Our CEO, Ping Wu, founded and led Google's Contact Center AI and Vertex AI platforms before joining Cresta to build the future of AI-driven customer experiences.
Over the next few years, AI is going to redefine how people all over the world interact with businesses every day. Come build that future at Cresta.
About the role:
Cresta’s Core Platform underpins the company’s entire product portfolio. Our long term vision is to build a robust, reliable, secure, and extensible foundation that supports continued innovation, satisfies enterprise customer requirements, and keeps operational costs in check. Two critical components for that are agent assist backend services and scalable authentication systems, tools, processes and frameworks based on industry standards and security best practices.
This role is focused on building various backend systems needed to enable successful customer integrations:
- Enable agent assist integration for chat and email. This involves working with the frontend platform team, ML teams, infra team and other backend services.
- Expand our backend agent assist services to meet customer requirements and feature requests.
- Address any customer issues that block integrations, affect user experience or system performance.
- Work with the auth and security team to meet Cresta’s diverse authentication and security needs for internal workflows and external customer facing integrations.
We are looking for strong versatile backend engineers who want to work at the intersection of distributed systems, real-time communication, enterprise integrations, and IAM systems.
Why This Role Is Unique:
- Enterprise-Grade Integrations: Design robust integrations with major CCaaS platforms and customer systems.
- Specialized Auth Experience: Join the Cresta auth team and help build specialized authentication systems to authenticate users, service accounts, virtual agents, server workloads, cloud based authentication for external integrations, etc.
- Agent Assist Integrations
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