Staff Software Engineer – Video Streaming

Job overview

The Staff Software Engineer – Video Streaming role is hybrid in Boston, MA, with two core in-office days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, and flexibility to work from home on other days. The target annual base pay range is $146,000–$195,000. The engineer supports SimpliSafe’s Video team and its mission of keeping every home secure. The engineer designs, builds, and maintains cloud-based systems for customers to interact with security cameras. The role contributes to reliable, simple, high-performance video streaming and recording through technical ownership, implementation, mentoring, and ongoing system maintenance.

What you'll do

• Partner with stakeholders to design reliable and flexible solutions
• implement software through coding, code reviews, and mentoring
• maintain and optimize systems, fix bugs, add features, improve design and usability, and automate
• document systems
• serve as an on-call first responder for software owned by the team.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff software engineer

video streaming

backend systems

cloud services

distributed systems

webrtc

go

c#

typescript

aws

kubernetes

hybrid

boston ma

$146k–$195k

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Comprehensive total rewards package
• free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring
• employee resource groups
• potential annual bonus and equity, plus medical, retirement, and lifestyle benefits.

Why this role

The role requires 8+ years of industry experience, including end-to-end ownership of a production backend system, and 2+ years designing, building, or operating real-time or low-latency video streaming. The posting names Go, C#, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes, SQS, SNS, ffmpeg, and WebRTC among its technologies.

About the employer

SimpliSafe is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.