Staff Software Engineer, Video Streaming

Accountabilities:

• Design, build, and optimize scalable video streaming systems supporting live and recorded video ingestion, encoding, packaging, and delivery.

• Develop and enhance low-latency video pipelines using modern streaming technologies and cloud infrastructure.

• Build and maintain backend services in Go and TypeScript (Node), ensuring performance, reliability, and scalability.

• Integrate and extend video processing libraries such as FFmpeg (libav) and related streaming frameworks.

• Collaborate on API design and implementation to support internal and external video consumption use cases.

• Work with AWS and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes/EKS, Docker, observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana).

• Contribute to system architecture decisions and improve orchestration, scalability, and resource efficiency.

• Partner cross-functionally with product and engineering teams to deliver high-impact video capabilities.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience with video and streaming technologies such as WebRTC, HLS, RTSP, and FFmpeg.

• Strong background in building systems for video ingestion, encoding, processing, and delivery.

• Hands-on experience with FFmpeg libraries (e.g., libav) and media pipeline engineering.

• Proficiency in Go and TypeScript (Node.js) for backend service development.

• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS).

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

• Proven ability to design scalable APIs and distributed systems.

• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to tackle ambiguous, complex engineering challenges.

• Collaborative approach with experience working across engineering and product teams.

• Bonus: experience with LiveKit, AWS IVS, or similar streaming orchestration tools.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary range of $200,000 – $225,000 plus equity options

• Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Health Savings Account (HSA) contributions

• Flexible PTO plus 11 company holidays

• 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, with additional recovery time for birthing parents

• Fertility, adoption, and family-building support up to $50,000 lifetime benefit

• Mental health support through therapy, coaching, and wellness tools

• Caregiver support services

• Monthly WFH stipend and home office setup allowance

• Learning, productivity, and wellness stipends

• Comprehensive equity and tax advisory support

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