Remote Firmware Engineer — Live Creation & Oncall

Ascendion; San Jose (CA); Remote; USD 187,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Long-term disability insurance

Short-term disability insurance

Personal days

Paid time off aligned with laws (sick/

Paid vacations 10-15 days

Holidays and floating holiday

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking three senior firmware/software engineers to support and maintain the Live creation experience. This hands-on role focuses on production support, on‑call coverage, bug fixes, and small feature changes across a large codebase.

You will work across web frontend and backend services with independence and limited day-to-day direction. Responsibilities include triaging alerts, tracing issues across services, shipping fixes, and documenting findings to retain knowledge within the

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work independently in a large, unfamiliar codebase with minimal direction.
• Experience with live video, streaming, or real-time media systems (nice to have).
• Experience with GraphQL (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Debug and resolve issues spanning web frontend and backend services in the Live creation stack.
• Document findings and fixes so knowledge stays with the team.

Skills

Independent work in large codebase

Live video / streaming systems

GraphQL

Job description

Ascendion is seeking three senior firmware/software engineers to support and maintain the Live creation experience. This hands-on role focuses on production support, on‑call coverage, bug fixes, and small feature changes across a large codebase.

You will work across web frontend and backend services with independence and limited day-to-day direction. Responsibilities include triaging alerts, tracing issues across services, shipping fixes, and documenting findings to retain knowledge within the