Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming

Job overview

The Staff Backend Engineer, Video and Streaming role is full-time and onsite in Sunnyvale, CA, with a base salary of $210,000–$250,000 per year. The engineer owns the video and streaming backend for Signals, Knightscope’s security technology platform. Knightscope’s stated mission is to make the United States the safest country in the world.

What you'll do

• Own the Signals video and streaming backend end to end
• lead vendor knowledge transfer on video pipeline architecture and operations
• partner with the Video UI frontend team on streaming experience
• partner with the machine learning/computer vision team on model serving for ICM 2.0
• establish service-level objectives, an on-call rotation, and video-pipeline cost optimization.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff backend engineer

video and streaming

sunnyvale ca

knightscope

full-time

$210,000–$250,000 per year

backend engineering

video pipeline

webrtc

hls

rtmp

distributed systems

on-call rotation

security technology

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Stock options
• medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k)
• paid time off.

Why this role

Requires 10+ years of backend engineering experience, staff-level architectural ownership, deep video streaming systems experience, high-throughput real-time systems experience, distributed systems fundamentals, and production media-pipeline ownership.

About the employer

Knightscope is hiring for this role. Industry: Custom Computer Programming Services. Sector: 54.