Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
Senior/Staff Engineer to own and improve the media pipeline and services around LiveKit's real-time core, handling ingest, export, recordings, format/codec handling, and distributed media processing at scale.
Backend Engineer, Core Sending
Builds and scales core email sending infrastructure handling millions of daily requests and emails. Designs high-availability systems, async pipelines, and databases with 8+ years backend experience focused on AWS cloud infrastructure.
120k – 140kUnited StatesBackend EngineeringRemote8+ YOE
About the role
Responsibilities
- Help define the architecture to support millions of daily API requests
- Build and scale infrastructure to send dozens of millions of emails per day
- Improve high availability across distributed applications
- Scale databases like Postgres and Clickhouse to ensure that they are performant
- Enhance observability by using monitoring tools like Datadog
- Refine disaster recovery plans to ensure that recovery is quick and reliable
- Help to build our infrastructure with IaC frameworks like CDK and TF
- Work with Typescript and Golang
- Design and operate async pipelines (queues, streams, idempotency, retries, DLQs) that move tens of millions of messages per day
- Be on-call rotation (for critical services)
Requirements
- 8+ years of back-end engineering with a focus on cloud infrastructure
- Fluent in writing and speaking English
- Can consistently work in the Americas timezone
- Thrive in open-ended problems and situations
- Have supported large workloads on AWS
- Experience with event-driven systems at scale (Kafka, SQS/SNS, or similar)
Nice-to-haves
- Have experience working on applications with a high workload
- Know about email best practices, or are willing to learn more about this space
- Are experienced in Typescript and Golang
Compensation
- $120,000 - $140,000 USD, commensurate with experience
Skills
TypeScriptGoAWSPostgresClickHouseDatadogCdkTerraformKafkaSQS
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