Staff Backend Engineer, Video Platform

📋 Description

• Lead the architecture and delivery of live video systems spanning ingest, transcoding, packaging
• Build scalable backend services and APIs that power live video experiences across web and mobile.
• Improve end-to-end streaming latency, video quality, and reliability across devices and network
• Drive video vendor evaluation, integration, and build-versus-buy decisions, balancing capabilities
• Establish observability, quality metrics, service-level objectives, and load testing practices to
• Own production reliability through incident response, debugging, capacity planning, and lasting

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, with demonstrated
• Experience architecting and delivering live video systems supporting large audiences, ideally
• Deep knowledge of live streaming technologies, including HLS, low-latency HLS, and WebRTC, and the
• Experience diagnosing and improving streaming behavior, including buffering, adaptive bitrate
• Experience delivering broadcast and playback capabilities across web, iOS, and Android in
• Strong foundations in distributed systems, APIs, data storage, caching, queues, and event-driven