Senior WebRTC Video Streaming Engineer – Cloud & SFU

Telemetry Today LLC; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Holiday pay

401K

Job summary

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a software engineer with 5+ years in WebRTC and real-time video streaming to contribute to telemetry and pilot controls. You will patch and optimize media paths and collaborate across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will architect and tune WebRTC components, work with LiveKit SFU and Pion, and support hybrid deployments in San Mateo, CA. This role offers relocation support and competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep production expertise in WebRTC and real-time video streaming.
• Strong command of WebRTC internals: PeerConnection, RTP/RTCP, SDP, ICE/STUN/TURN, SCTP data channels, jitter buffers, and congestion control (TWCC/GCC, NACK/RTX, PLI/FIR)

Responsibilities

• Bypass Chrome's built-in WebRTC decode pipeline using Encoded Transform / Insertable Streams and WebCodecs (VideoDecoder/VideoFrame) synchronizing video frames with 3D telemetry poses via in-band SEI / packet-trailer metadata
• Architect and tune WebRTC media and data paths: RTP/RTCP packetization, congestion control (TWCC/GCC), NACK/RTX retransmission, PLI/keyframe recovery, and SCTP data-channel QoS for telemetry and pilot controls
• Operate and harden LiveKit SFU deployments and SDKs (server-sdk-go, livekit-client, Pion) across cloud and on-prem/FedRAMP environments, including ICE/STUN/TURN and relay topologies

Skills

WebRTC

Real-time video streaming

Kubernetes

WebCodecs

Tools

LiveKit

Pion/webrtc

Job description

Skydio, the leading US drone company, seeks a software engineer with 5+ years in WebRTC and real-time video streaming to contribute to telemetry and pilot controls. You will patch and optimize media paths and collaborate across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will architect and tune WebRTC components, work with LiveKit SFU and Pion, and support hybrid deployments in San Mateo, CA. This role offers relocation support and competitive compensation.