Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement
GameChanger2 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, architect, code, and support video features across live ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback at scale.
- Influence and communicate the strategic technology roadmap for the video platform with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager.
- Collaborate with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, platform, and product teams on video processing projects.
- Review designs and code pull requests, pair on architectures, and provide hands-on technical guidance.
- Build and connect internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling that simplify video integration for product teams.
- Define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical video workflows and operational support.
- Participate in an occasional on-call rotation to support production video systems.
- Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard software engineers in video and live streaming.
Requirements
- 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.
- Strong understanding of video packaging, codecs, and related streaming technologies and tools.
- Hands-on experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows across broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, and playback systems.
- Proficiency reading or coding in languages used in video systems, such as C#, Go, C++, Rust, and Python, plus experience with Node, TypeScript, React, Kotlin, or Swift.
- Experience designing, building, or connecting internal APIs and SDKs across the stack.
- Experience mentoring, training, documenting, and collaborating with other engineering teams.
- Familiarity with mobile broadcasting of user-generated content and optimizing streaming quality and reliability across devices and networks.
- Hands-on experience with one or more video players.
- Front-end development experience in web, iOS, or Android is required.
- Familiarity with computer vision concepts, architectures, or tools is a plus.
- Familiarity with video advertising systems concepts, architectures, or tools is a plus.
Benefits
- Fully remote work throughout the US or work from the Manhattan, NY office.
- Unlimited vacation policy and paid volunteer opportunities.
- Technology, work-from-home, learning, wellness, and lifestyle stipends are provided.
- Full health benefits, retirement savings plans with immediate company match, life insurance, disability leave, and company-paid parental leave.
- Family-building benefits and a DICK'S Sporting Goods teammate discount are available.
About GameChanger
GameChanger is a technology company that builds simple and powerful products for youth sports teams and their communities. Our app provides world class access to live game action, the statistics to inform teachings and help fuel growth, and solutions that rally community around a team. In November 2016, GameChanger proudly joined the DICK’S Sporting Goods family. IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.