Streaming Media & SDK Engineer - Low Latency

Brivo; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Unlimited PTO

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Brivo in Austin is seeking a Streaming Media & SDK Engineer who loves solving tough engineering challenges, squeezing every millisecond out of video playback, and delivering seamless streaming across Web, Android, and iOS. From low-latency playback to hardware-accelerated decoding, you’ll scale to 16+ simultaneous video streams and build core technology that keeps video smooth worldwide.

Design and optimize cross‑platform video playback SDKs, architect shared core components for transport,

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience building and delivering cloud-based services, applications, and SDKs in a CI/CD environment.
• Proven mastery of systems programming languages including C, C++ and/or Rust.
• Hands-on experience with hardware‑accelerated codecs and native platform decoding/rendering pipelines (WebCodecs, MediaCodec, VideoToolbox).
• Deep familiarity with network and streaming transport protocols (UDP, TCP, RTP/RTCP, RTSP, HLS, and WebSockets).
• Expertise in code and service optimization centered around multimedia memory management, latency reduction, and frame synchronization.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills to align with architects, product owners, and cross‑functional engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize cross-platform video playback SDKs (Web, Android, and iOS) supporting video pipelines (HLS, FLV, and multipart JPEG).
• Architect and implement shared core components handling network transport, stream demuxing, edge-local routing, session management, and QoE telemetry.
• Collaborate within Agile delivery teams to engineer high-performance, multi-channel streaming solutions capable of scaling to 16+ concurrent video tiles.
• Drive rigorous conformance testing, automated test fixtures, and performance optimization to ensure low time-to-first-frame (TTFF) and seamless playback experiences worldwide.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Video streaming

Cross-platform SDKs

CI/CD

Memory management

Latency reduction

Frame synchronization

Network protocols

Tools

Docker

Job description

Brivo in Austin is seeking a Streaming Media & SDK Engineer who loves solving tough engineering challenges, squeezing every millisecond out of video playback, and delivering seamless streaming across Web, Android, and iOS. From low-latency playback to hardware-accelerated decoding, you’ll scale to 16+ simultaneous video streams and build core technology that keeps video smooth worldwide.

Design and optimize cross‑platform video playback SDKs, architect shared core components for transport,