Senior Software Engineer, Scalable Video Infrastructure (Hybrid)

Roku; Town Of Cambridge; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health resources

Healthcare benefits

Retirement options

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build large-scale video infrastructure powering Live and VOD streaming. You will work with video engineers to ingest, process, and deliver vast video content, building cloud-native services that scale and remain reliable.

You’ll tackle complex distributed systems, maintain robust pipelines, and contribute to infrastructure that impacts millions of viewers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience building distributed backend systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of container orchestration, autoscaling, resiliency, and cloud patterns.
• Hands-on with media pipelines and real‑time streaming infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale data-stream pipelines for Live and VOD.
• Develop high-throughput, low-latency containerized services for video ingestion and delivery.
• Architect systems to process thousands of streams in real time.
• Design resilient worker-to-worker streaming and transport mechanisms.
• Build scalable orchestration and container-management systems with autoscaling and rolling deployments.
• Develop real-time monitoring, telemetry, logging, and alerting for ops visibility.

Skills

Go

Java

Rust

C

C++

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

Tools

GStreamer

FFmpeg

MediaMTX

Kubernetes

ECS

Nomad

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design and build large-scale video infrastructure powering Live and VOD streaming. You will work with video engineers to ingest, process, and deliver vast video content, building cloud-native services that scale and remain reliable.

You’ll tackle complex distributed systems, maintain robust pipelines, and contribute to infrastructure that impacts millions of viewers worldwide.