Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement

What You’ll Do

• Design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/consumption at scale.
• Influence, communicate, and iterate on the strategic roadmap for video technology as the platform scales and adds capabilities.
• Collaborate with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on projects across the video processing system.
• Review designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, provide guidance and hands-on help.
• Build and connect internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to enable product teams to integrate video easily.
• Define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for video pipeline workflows, including on-call tools.
• Support video workflows through an occasional on-call rotation (few days per month).
• Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard other software engineers in video and live-streaming.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, with focus on live-streaming of user-generated content.
• Extensive experience architecting and building scalable, high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments (AWS or similar).
• Strong understanding of audio/video packaging, codecs, and technologies including MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC/VP9/AV1/VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP/SRT, FFMPEG, DRM.
• Hands-on experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows, covering mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback at scale.
• Proficiency in languages used in video space such as C#/Golang/C++/Rust/Python, plus higher-level languages like Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages (Kotlin, Swift).
• Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack.
• Experience mentoring teams through documentation and sessions on utilizing the video system.
• Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and optimizing quality/reliability across devices and networks.
• Hands-on experience with one or more video players.
• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin); willingness to learn unfamiliar front-end areas is a plus.
• Familiarity with CV concepts, architectures, or tools is a plus.
• Familiarity with video advertising systems is a plus.

Who You Are

• Excellent communicator and writer, able to break down complex technical details for varied stakeholders.
• Proven technical leadership in software engineering roles in video streaming.
• Comfortable working across multiple technologies, languages, and areas of the video stack.
• Able to foster collaboration and teamwork.
• Loves learning and teaching the latest tech in mobile and live streaming.

Perks & Benefits

• Remote work throughout the US or office in Manhattan, NY.
• Unlimited vacation.
• Technology stipend ($4,000 every 2 years), WFH stipend ($500 annually), learning stipend ($500 annually).
• Monthly wellness & lifestyle stipends.
• Full health benefits, 401K with immediate match, life/disability insurance, parental leave (up to 20/12 weeks), family building benefits.
• Company discounts.