Senior Software Engineer, Media & Video Platforms

Maven Ventures

Palo Alto (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 330,000

Full time

14 days+

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Disability insurance
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Job summary

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe and is expanding its media platform. We are hiring a Sr. Software Engineer, Media to deeply integrate our AI-powered infrastructure into a video platform used by hundreds of millions of users each month.

Responders will work on video playback, live streaming, Spaces, and AV calls, using languages like C++, Go, and Rust, and deploying with Kubernetes for scale and reliability.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience building media, video, or streaming systems.
  • Experience with high-performance C++ or Go.

Responsibilities

  • Build the next generation of large-scale video services.
  • Contribute to and rebuild core media processing and distribution pipelines in high-performance languages (Rust, C++, or Go).
  • Ensure end-to-end media quality and performance at scale across a rich suite of products and user platforms.

Skills

High-performance C++
Go
Rust
WebRTC
LL-HLS
Video codecs

Tools

Kubernetes
FoundationDB
ValKey
Envoy
S3

Job description

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe and is expanding its media platform. We are hiring a Sr. Software Engineer, Media to deeply integrate our AI-powered infrastructure into a video platform used by hundreds of millions of users each month.

Responders will work on video playback, live streaming, Spaces, and AV calls, using languages like C++, Go, and Rust, and deploying with Kubernetes for scale and reliability.

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