Staff Video Streaming Engineer — Remote

GameChanger; United States; Remote; USD 169,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work remotely throughout the US

Unlimited vacation

Paid volunteer opportunities

Technology stipend

WFH stipend

Learning stipend

Wellness & learning stipend

Retirement benefits

Health benefits

Parental leave

Job summary

GameChanger is seeking a fully-remote Staff Software Engineer/Architect to lead the expansion of video capabilities and form a new Video Engineering team. You will own the video pipeline end-to-end, shaping live streaming and VoD capabilities while improving developer experience for product teams.

You’ll mentor others, influence roadmaps, and collaborate with platform and product teams to build scalable, resilient video systems across ingestion, transcoding, storage, and playback.

Qualifications

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, preferably live streaming of user-generated content.
• Extensive experience architecting and building scalable, high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Proficiency with video codecs and packaging tools (HLS, DASH, RTMP, FFMPEG).
• Hands-on experience designing live and VOD streaming workflows across ingest, transcoding, storage, and playback.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, code, and support video features across the pipeline stack (live ingestion, transcoding, storage, playback at scale).
• Influence strategic roadmap for video technology and scale capabilities.
• Collaborate with mobile/web/ML/platform teams to deliver multi-faceted video projects.
• Review designs, mentor engineers, and contribute hands-on guidance as needed.
• Build internal APIs/SDKs to enable rapid feature development across the stack.

Skills

Video streaming

Cloud architecture

Go

C++

Python

Leadership

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

FFMPEG

Job description

GameChanger is seeking a fully-remote Staff Software Engineer/Architect to lead the expansion of video capabilities and form a new Video Engineering team. You will own the video pipeline end-to-end, shaping live streaming and VoD capabilities while improving developer experience for product teams.

You’ll mentor others, influence roadmaps, and collaborate with platform and product teams to build scalable, resilient video systems across ingestion, transcoding, storage, and playback.