Senior Backend Engineer - Video Streaming Platform

United States Digital Space LLC; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision & Dental

HSA/FSA

Mental health support

Paid holidays & PTO

Professional development

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer (Video Streaming) to design scalable backend systems powering live and historic video for millions of devices. You will build cloud-native services, optimize real-time data pipelines, and ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency across the streaming stack.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver advanced video capabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience in Go or Python.
• 7+ years experience designing and building large-scale, resilient distributed systems using service-oriented or microservice architectures.
• 6+ years experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and deployment automation (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, or similar).
• 6+ years experience with databases, queues, blob storage, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• You bring a systems design mindset, able to simplify complex workflows and deliver scalable, efficient solutions.
• You care deeply about performance, reliability, and security, and have a track record of building services that excel in all three.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrate creativity and sound judgment, and take ownership of problems end to end.
• Bonus: you’ve worked with IoT devices, real-time streaming technologies, or multimedia formats such as H.264/H.265, FFmpeg, or similar pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve highly scalable, cloud-native services that power video and audio streaming for millions of devices.
• Architect and optimize distributed, real-time data pipelines that connect cameras, the cloud, and end users with low latency and high reliability.
• Build and operate a high-performance video transcoding and multiplexing service that is fault-tolerant, cost-efficient, and capable of scaling to massive workloads.
• Define and refine service-oriented architectures, APIs, and interfaces that enable streaming to scale seamlessly across our platform.
• Develop clean, reliable, and testable backend code that performs under heavy load and ensures a flawless customer experience.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver new video capabilities and experiences that raise the bar for the industry.
• Champion engineering excellence by driving performance, reliability, and best practices across the organization.

Tools

Go/Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Databases & queues

Systems design

Performance & security

IoT/Streaming

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Backend Engineer (Video Streaming) to design scalable backend systems powering live and historic video for millions of devices. You will build cloud-native services, optimize real-time data pipelines, and ensure reliability, security, and cost efficiency across the streaming stack.

The role emphasizes collaboration with product, hardware, and infrastructure teams to deliver advanced video capabilities.