Staff Backend Engineer – Real-Time Video

EducationPals; Amsterdam; Híbrido; EUR 90 000 - 120 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

EducationPals in Amsterdam is seeking a senior-level engineer for a full-time role that combines in-office work three days a week with the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in the EU. You will own critical post-incident escalations, collaborate with enterprise customers on advanced integrations, and mentor senior engineers through design and code reviews.

Focus is on reliability, latency, and cost awareness.

Descrição da oferta de emprego

This is a full-time role, hybrid with 3 days a week in our Amsterdam office, or remote from anywhere in the EU. What you’ll work on [...] Take the final escalation: handle the hardest quality, latency and production incidents, and work with enterprise customers on advanced integrations. Raise the bar: mentor senior engineers through design review, code review and hiring. You’ve owned systems where a dropped session or a bad rollout is visible to users within seconds, and you think about cost and

Relevance is based on skills and concepts, not a guarantee that you qualify.

Coming-soon courses matched to this posting: outline, waitlist, and skill path.

1. Video Capture and Encoding Fundamentals

Understand how raw media becomes network-ready streams through codec selection, bitrate management, and adaptive encoding.

Compare and implement WebRTC, HLS, DASH, and RTMP for different latency and scale requirements.

3. CDN Architecture and Edge Delivery

Design content delivery networks that handle live traffic spikes, regional distribution, and failover scenarios.

4. Real-Time Interaction Systems

Build chat, reactions, polls, and synchronized metadata layers that operate alongside live video.

5. Analytics and Signal Collection

Capture, process, and store engagement signals from live streams for measurement and optimization.

6. Monetization and Ad Insertion

Implement server-side ad insertion, sponsorship overlays, and commerce integrations for live video.

7. Scaling and Operational Reliability

Handle traffic spikes, failover, monitoring, and incident response for production live video systems.