Key skills
CloudDistributed SystemsFFmpegRustAIPub/SubCDNCaching
About this role
Role Overview
- Design and build scalable short-form video infrastructure
- Architect video ingestion and transcoding pipelines
- Optimize playback performance across mobile and web
- Design scalable media delivery systems
- Build APIs supporting high-volume video engagement
- Help architect recommendation and engagement systems
- Work on low-latency media infrastructure
- Collaborate with frontend, mobile, AI, and platform engineers
- Help optimize infrastructure for global fan engagement at scale
Requirements
- Strong Rust backend engineering experience
- Experience designing scalable distributed systems
- Experience building high-scale APIs
- Experience with media or video infrastructure
- Experience working with real-time systems
- Strong understanding of concurrency and low-latency infrastructure
- Experience building scalable content delivery systems
- Experience optimizing backend performance for high-volume traffic
- Strong understanding of scalable media pipelines
- Experience with one or more of the following is highly preferred:
- Video ingestion pipelines
- Video transcoding systems
- Streaming infrastructure
- CDN optimization
- Short-form video feed systems
- Recommendation or engagement systems
- Real-time media delivery
- Upload and processing pipelines
- Distributed event systems
- Large-scale consumer platforms
- High-concurrency backend systems
- Experience with FFmpeg or media processing pipelines
- Experience with WebRTC or streaming technologies
- Experience with scalable caching systems
- Experience with distributed databases
- Experience with pub/sub infrastructure
- Experience with cloud-native infrastructure
- Experience building globally distributed systems
- Experience with recommendation systems or engagement ranking
- Experience with AI-assisted moderation or translation systems
- Interest in sports, football, or fan engagement products
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- FFmpeg
- Rust
Benefits
- Solutions not problems
- Creative problem solver who can courageously propose and support new ideas to our organization.
- Not interested in best practices, lets build something better!
- Ability to adapt. An ideal candidate will welcome the opportunity to solve a broad range of problems using a wide array of technologies.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and general growing pains of an early-stage technology company
- An exceptional entrepreneurial judgment that fosters independence over micro-management
- Understanding of football and international sports a huge plus