Senior Go Engineer - Real-Time Media Ingestion (Remote)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first environment

Unlimited PTO

Health and welfare plans

Learning stipend

Job summary

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. You will join as a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the real-time ingestion layer that handles audio, video, and telephony metadata from providers such as Zoom, Teams, Webex, and more.

You will develop Go microservices, ensure low latency and high availability, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with Product, SRE, and Analytics teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience building and operating distributed backend services in production.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) or a comparable language with Linux/Unix, networking, concurrency and performance tuning fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP), containerization/orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), and DevOps (CI/CD pipelines).
• Proven track record in diagnosing and resolving complex distributed systems issues, with on-call experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate distributed Go microservices and media pipelines for low-latency processing.
• Develop integrations across SIPREC, RTP, WebRTC, WebSockets and enterprise contact center platforms.
• Lead architecture and design decisions, from implementation to production support.
• Diagnose issues using logs, metrics, traces, and tests to improve reliability and security.
• Provide technical guidance through design reviews, code reviews, and mentorship of junior engineers.
• Collaborate with Product, SRE, Infrastructure, and Analytics teams to deliver seamless data ingestion.
• Participate in on-call rotations after training and onboarding.

Skills

Go (Golang)

Linux/Unix fundamentals

Cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP)

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed systems

On-call production support

SIPREC/RTP/WebRTC

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Apache Kafka/MSK

FFmpeg

GStreamer

Job description

Pindrop is a cybersecurity company delivering continuous identity verification across voice, video, and digital interactions. You will join as a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate the real-time ingestion layer that handles audio, video, and telephony metadata from providers such as Zoom, Teams, Webex, and more.

You will develop Go microservices, ensure low latency and high availability, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with Product, SRE, and Analytics teams.