Staff Backend Engineer — Real-Time Video Platform

Stream; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity

28 days paid time off plus Dutchpublic

Pension plan with a company contribute

NS Business Card or a company bike, or

Personal development budget of EUR 500

Catered lunches in the office

MacBook Pro

Up to EUR 60 a month toward gym/sports

Relocation support to Amsterdam

Job summary

Stream is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical direction of Stream Video's media plane and its infrastructure. You'll shape architecture, scale live streaming, and drive reliability across clouds.

The role blends hands-on coding with roadmap ownership and collaboration with product and client teams. Based in Amsterdam or remote within the EU, you will mentor engineers, define validation gates for production changes, and move fleets toward Kubernetes while managing cost and

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience with ownership of high-scale production systems.
• Proficiency in Go or an equivalent systems language (Go, 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.
• Hands-on experience adopting AI coding and agent tools, and judgement on how to make them safe in production.

Responsibilities

• Architecture: write the architecture and roadmap for Stream Video's backend and media infrastructure, and decide what ships.
• Scale livestreaming: architect the SFU and media pipeline (WHIP, WHEP, RTMP, SRT, HLS, SVC).
• Own the fleet: reliability, autoscaling, placement, rollouts, observability and cost for long-lived sessions across clouds.
• Gate production changes: define the validation that decides which changes reach live media, using tests and telemetry.
• Take the final escalation: handle the hardest quality, latency and production incidents with enterprise customers.
• Raise the bar: mentor senior engineers through design review, code review and hiring.

Skills

Backend engineering

Architectural ownership

Real-time systems

Distributed systems

Real-time media

Documentation

AI tooling

Tools

Pion WebRTC

Kubernetes

Job description

Stream is seeking a Staff Backend Engineer to own the technical direction of Stream Video's media plane and its infrastructure. You'll shape architecture, scale live streaming, and drive reliability across clouds.

The role blends hands-on coding with roadmap ownership and collaboration with product and client teams. Based in Amsterdam or remote within the EU, you will mentor engineers, define validation gates for production changes, and move fleets toward Kubernetes while managing cost and