Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform
Core
Architect and deliver live video systems covering ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback for web and mobile.
Role type
Staff Backend Engineer (Video Platform)
Builds
Scalable backend services and APIs for live video experiences
Domain
Streaming technology, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Live video system architecture, HLS/WebRTC/low-latency streaming, distributed systems, cloud-native operations (AWS/Kubernetes), Python/Go, incident response, capacity planning, technical leadership, mentoring
Preferred skills
Experience with 100k+ concurrent viewers, broadcast capabilities, vendor evaluation
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, HLS, WebRTC, Python, Go
Responsibilities
Architect live video systems, improve streaming latency and quality, establish observability and load-testing practices, own production reliability, mentor engineers, partner on multi-quarter roadmap
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with technical leadership
