Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement

The role

You will lead the expansion of video capabilities as a hands-on architect and software engineer. You will design, architect, code, and support video features across the pipeline stack including ingestion, transcoding, and playback.

What you will do

• Design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack.
• Influence and iterate on the strategic technology roadmap.
• Collaborate with mobile, web, machine learning, and platform teams.
• Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs.
• Build and connect internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling.
• Build real-time monitoring and measurement systems.
• Support video workflows through an occasional on-call rotation.
• Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard other software engineers.

Required qualifications

• Strong background in video and audio streaming.
• Extensive experience architecting and building scalable and high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and associated technologies.
• Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows.
• Proficiency reading in languages such as c#, golang, C++, Rust, or Python.
• Experience in higher-level languages such as Node/Typescript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift.
• Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack.
• Experience mentoring/training/working with other teams through documentation and live sessions.
• Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content.
• Hands-on experience with one or more video players.
• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) required.

Nice to have

• Focus on live-streaming of user-generated content.
• Willingness to learn/work in front end areas you are not familiar with.
• Familiarity with CV concepts, architectures, and/or tools.
• Familiarity with video advertising systems concepts, architectures, and/or tools.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Paid volunteer opportunities.
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years.
• WFH stipend - $500 annually.
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend.
• Full health benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and family coverage.
• Retirement savings with immediate company match via Traditional and Roth 401K.
• Life insurance.
• Disability leave.
• Company paid parental leave.
• Family building benefits.

Before you apply

• Unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.
• Please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments.

About the company

GameChanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City. They build products to help families experience youth sports moments.