# Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement

**Company:** [GameChanger](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/gamechanger)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Video Streaming, Live Streaming, Video Pipelines, Hls, Dash, H.264, H.265, Vp9, Av1, Rtmp, Srt, Ffmpeg, AWS, Go, Python
**Posted:** 2026-07-15

> Lead the new Video Engineering team as a hands-on architect building scalable live and on-demand video pipelines for youth sports streaming. Requires deep expertise in video codecs, streaming protocols, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development across mobile, backend, and frontend.

## Job Description

## 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.

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