Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement

GameChanger is a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, focused on enhancing youth sports through technology. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development of video capabilities, managing the entire video pipeline and collaborating with various teams to improve user experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Working in your cross-functional team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/consumption at scale
• Working closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager of the video team, you’ll help influence, communicate, and iterate on the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features as we continue to scale and add new capabilities
• Collaborate closely with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects across the entire video processing system to drive improved user experiences and business outcomes
• Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and provide guidance and hands-on help as needed
• Help to build and connect to internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to enable product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at various stages of the video pipeline
• Help define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline, including tools for on-call developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues. Support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation with a team of other engineers
• Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space
• Be able to be in an oncall rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours

Requirements:

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, preferably with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content
• Extensive experience architecting and building scalable and high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments. We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine
• Strong understanding of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated technologies and tools, including their relative tradeoffs, such as MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC/VP9/AV1/VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP/SRT, FFMPEG, DRM, etc
• Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows and exposure to a wide breadth of video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale
• Proficiency reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python, as well as experience in other 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 (backend to front end) to enable rapid feature development
• Experience mentoring/training/working with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features utilizing the system we build/own
• Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions
• Hands-on experience with one or more video players
• Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) required. Willingness to learn/work in front end areas you are not familiar with is a huge plus
• An excellent communicator and writer capable of breaking down complex projects and technical details for stakeholders of varying expertise
• Proven track record of effective technical leadership in software engineering roles in the video streaming space
• Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack
• Able to foster collaboration and teamwork within technical teams
• Someone who loves learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces, and loves teaching it to other engineers and product managers
• Familiarity with CV concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus
• Familiarity with video advertising systems concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus