Lead Engineer – Real-Time Video Infrastructure

Role Overview

• Architect and evolve our Go/Pion-based SFU handling real-time video and audio traffic at global scale
• Build and improve our media pipeline supporting WHIP, WHEP, RTMP, SRT, HLS, and SVC codecs
• Work on bandwidth estimation, codec optimization (Opus, VP8/VP9/AV1), and low-latency delivery
• Expand our AI integrations for real-time audio and video processing
• Improve the stability, performance, and feature-set of our edge server network
• Collaborate directly with customers on advanced integration challenges
• Lead a small team: 1:1s, performance reviews, code reviews, and technical roadmap

Requirements

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience
• 2+ years in an engineering leadership role (tech lead, team lead, or equivalent)
• Strong experience in at least 2 of the 3 following areas:
• Strong experience with AI adoption
• Systems-level backend engineering in Go or a similar language (Rust, C++, Java)
• Scalability fundamentals — distributed systems, database internals

Strong Plus:

• WebRTC — protocol knowledge, SFU/MCU concepts, RTP/RTCP, DTLS
• Experience with API/PG/Redis
• AWS or comparable cloud infrastructure at scale
• Python (our AI/moderation layer runs on Python) or Rust

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Java
• Python
• Redis
• Rust
• Go

Benefits

• 28 days paid time off plus paid Dutch holidays
• Company equity
• A pension scheme
• A Learning and Development budget
• Commute expenses to Amsterdam covered or the option to use a company bike within the city
• Fitness stipend