Senior Live Event & Streaming Engineer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Salesforce seeks a Sr. Production Engineer who thrives at the intersection of live event production, technical operations, and platform engineering. You’ll be hands-on across pre-event planning, encoder configuration, real-time troubleshooting, and post-event analysis.

You’ll work on high-visibility projects, coordinate with AV vendors and internal stakeholders, and help build scalable systems and processes for global events in a remote-first, distributed team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in live event production, broadcast engineering, or related role.
• Hands-on with professional streaming platforms and multi-camera events.
• Experience solving real-time technical issues under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Execute live streaming for company-wide events including All-Hands meetings and kickoffs.
• Operate and monitor live broadcast systems, encoders, CDN distribution, and player deployment.
• Coordinate with event producers, AV vendors, and internal teams for seamless delivery.
• Conduct pre-production planning and post-mortems for continuous improvement.
• Manage platform operations and incident response for 24x7 support.

Skills

Live event production

Broadcast engineering

Streaming operations

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

SRE mindset

Python/Bash scripting

Tools

Teradek

LiveU

Wirecast

Viz Vectar

Kairos

Ross

Job description

Salesforce seeks a Sr. Production Engineer who thrives at the intersection of live event production, technical operations, and platform engineering. You’ll be hands-on across pre-event planning, encoder configuration, real-time troubleshooting, and post-event analysis.

You’ll work on high-visibility projects, coordinate with AV vendors and internal stakeholders, and help build scalable systems and processes for global events in a remote-first, distributed team.