Senior Live Streaming & Media Engineer

LiveBarn Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveBarn is seeking a hands-on Broadcasting and Media Engineer to join our fast-paced technology team. You will help run and improve our live video platform, covering the full streaming path from venues to viewers, ensuring stability and low latency.

You will work with Wowza, FFmpeg, and NVIDIA GPUs, troubleshoot cameras, encoders, networks, and playback issues, and contribute to automation and on-call rotations for live events.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting live video streaming systems in production.
• Strong experience with Wowza Streaming Engine is required.
• Strong experience with FFmpeg for live streaming, transcoding, recording, and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with RTSP, SRT, RTMP, HLS, and DASH protocols.
• Knowledge of IP cameras, hardware encoders, and GPU-based transcoding.
• Solid Linux and command-line troubleshooting skills; good networking fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot live streaming workflows using Wowza, FFmpeg, and GStreamer.
• Support cameras, hardware encoders, ingest, transcoding, recording, packaging, and delivery.
• Troubleshoot workflows across RTSP, SRT, RTMP, HLS, and DASH.
• Configure IP cameras including bitrate, resolution, frame rate, GOP, and authentication.
• Support NVIDIA GPU-based transcoding; monitor drivers, NVENC/NVDEC, and GPU health.
• Investigate dropped feeds, packet loss, latency, buffering, and A/V sync issues.
• Use ffprobe, FFmpeg, nvidia-smi, Wireshark, tcpdump, and GStreamer diagnostics to root cause issues.
• Improve monitoring and alerting around stream health, latency, bitrate, and GPU performance.
• Assist incident response and root-cause analysis; automate tasks with Python or Bash.
• Support venue deployments, replay/VOD workflows, and production infrastructure.

Skills

Wowza Streaming Engine

FFmpeg

GStreamer

RTSP

SRT

RTMP

HLS

DASH

IP cameras

Linux troubleshooting

Tools

ffprobe

FFmpeg

nvidia-smi

Wireshark

tcpdump

GStreamer

Job description

LiveBarn is seeking a hands-on Broadcasting and Media Engineer to join our fast-paced technology team. You will help run and improve our live video platform, covering the full streaming path from venues to viewers, ensuring stability and low latency.

You will work with Wowza, FFmpeg, and NVIDIA GPUs, troubleshoot cameras, encoders, networks, and playback issues, and contribute to automation and on-call rotations for live events.