Lead Software (video streaming platform)

We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer with a strong systems-level background to help design, build, and operate a cloud-native platform for real-time video streaming.

This role focuses on complex low-latency infrastructure: server-side video processing, transport protocols, and backend services (primarily Go), with selective use of Rust and C/C++ for performance-critical components.

Role focus: highly challenging real-time streaming infrastructure, end-to-end ownership, and production-grade workloads.

What you will do

1) Video Streaming & Media Systems

• Design, implement, and optimize real-time video streaming pipelines
• Develop custom GStreamer plugins (mandatory hands-on experience)
• Implement and maintain transport protocols: SRT, RTMP, MPEG-TS
• Work with encoding/decoding workflows and muxing/demuxing
• Optimize for low latency, high throughput, and production reliability
• Use FFmpeg where appropriate (nice to have, not required)

2) Backend & Systems Development

• Develop backend services primarily in Go
• Build performance-critical components in Rust and/or C/C++
• Build and maintain APIs and internal services supporting media orchestration
• Integrate messaging/caching/persistence: RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL (MySQL is also acceptable)

3) Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure

• Containerize services using Docker
• Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes (real production experience required)
• Define and manage infrastructure via Pulumi (IaC)
• Work across AWS and GCP
• Own Linux-based deployments, debugging, and runtime operations
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and operational best practices

Requirements (must-have)

• Languages: strong experience with C/C++, Rust, Go (or the willingness and ability to learn Go quickly)
• Media & Streaming (mandatory):
  • Practical understanding of SRT, RTMP, MPEG-TS
  • Hands-on GStreamer plugin development
  • Experience with server-side video streaming systems
  • FFmpeg is a plus
• Infrastructure & Systems: Docker, Kubernetes in production, Pulumi, RabbitMQ, Redis, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Linux (strong hands-on operational experience)

• Exposure to AWS and GCP

   

Expected seniority

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Proven ownership of complex production systems
• Comfortable working across media systems + backend + infrastructure
• Strong problem-solving in low-level and distributed systems
• Clear technical communication in English
• Able to thrive in a fast-moving, growth-stage environment