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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in architecting and delivering large-scale live video systems, with a strong focus on backend services, streaming technologies, and production reliability. Proven ability to mentor engineers and drive technical standards while collaborating across teams to enhance video quality and performance.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Live Video System ArchitectureLarge-Scale Backend SystemsLive Streaming TechnologiesCloud-Native Systems (AWS, Kubernetes)Technical Leadership
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Hard Skills
PythonGoHLSLow-Latency HLSWebRTCDistributed SystemsAPIsData StorageCachingEvent-Driven Architectures
Soft Skills
MentoringCollaborationTechnical Communication
Tools & Technologies
AWSKubernetes
Industry Keywords
Video Quality MetricsLoad TestingIncident ResponseStreaming LatencyAdaptive Bitrate Delivery
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAndroidAWSCloudDistributed SystemsiOSKubernetesPythonGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the architecture and delivery of live video systems spanning ingest, transcoding, packaging, delivery, and playback
- Build scalable backend services and APIs for live video experiences across web and mobile
- Improve streaming latency, video quality, and reliability across devices and network conditions
- Drive video vendor evaluation, integration, and build-versus-buy decisions
- Establish observability, quality metrics, service-level objectives, and load testing practices for major creator live events
- Own production reliability through incident response, debugging, capacity planning, and resilience improvements
- Partner with product, infrastructure, web, and mobile engineers on a multi-quarter video roadmap
- Mentor engineers through collaboration and design reviews
Requirements
What you’ll need- Significant experience building and operating large-scale backend systems, with demonstrated technical leadership across teams
- Experience architecting and delivering live video systems supporting large audiences, ideally 100,000+ concurrent viewers
- Deep knowledge of live streaming technologies, including HLS, low-latency HLS, and WebRTC
- Experience diagnosing and improving buffering, adaptive bitrate delivery, stream failures, and packet-loss impacts
- Experience delivering broadcast and playback capabilities across web, iOS, and Android
- Strong foundations in distributed systems, APIs, data storage, caching, queues, and event-driven architectures
- Experience evaluating and integrating video vendors, including SDK limitations, quotas, scaling constraints, and pricing models
- Experience defining video quality metrics, running load tests, debugging production issues, and supporting on-call coverage
- Experience operating cloud-native systems using AWS and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or a similar backend language
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs and translate ambiguous needs into a technical roadmap
- Experience mentoring engineers and establishing technical standards
Benefits
Comp & perks- Equity plans
- Healthcare
- Flexible time off
- Company holidays and recharge days
- Commuter benefits
- Lifestyle stipends
- Learning and development stipends
- Patronage
- Parental leave
- 401k plan with matching
- Hybrid work model
- Reasonable accommodation during the interview process