Staff Backend Engineer - Real-Time Video Infrastructure

stream; Netherlands; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stream is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical direction of Stream Video's media plane and its infrastructure. This hybrid role can be Amsterdam-based or EU remote, focusing on architecture, scalability, and cost-aware reliability of live video systems.

You will lead design, drive a roadmap for the backend, and collaborate with the Video SDK teams, infrastructure, and enterprise customers to deliver robust real-time streaming at scale.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience.
• Expert proficiency in Go or an equivalent systems language (Rust, C++, Java).
• Track record owning real-time, stateful or latency-sensitive systems at very high scale.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems and networking: failure modes, placement, capacity planning and cost.
• Strong experience with real-time media or streaming: WebRTC, SFU/MCU concepts, RTP/RTCP, DTLS, or RTMP, SRT and HLS.
• Clear written communication: design docs and RFCs that others can act on.

Responsibilities

• Architecture: define the backend and media infrastructure roadmap and what ships.
• Scale livestreaming: design the SFU and media pipeline for large audiences.
• Own the fleet: ensure reliability, autoscaling, placement, and cost across clouds.
• Gate production changes: define validation for changes reaching live media.
• Lead incidents and work with enterprise customers on integrations.
• Mentor senior engineers through design reviews and hiring.

Skills

Backend engineering

Go

Real-time media

Distributed systems

Networking

Design docs

Tools

Pion

WebRTC

Kubernetes

CockroachDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Stream is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical direction of Stream Video's media plane and its infrastructure. This hybrid role can be Amsterdam-based or EU remote, focusing on architecture, scalability, and cost-aware reliability of live video systems.

You will lead design, drive a roadmap for the backend, and collaborate with the Video SDK teams, infrastructure, and enterprise customers to deliver robust real-time streaming at scale.